It’ll be so exciting to study whatever we find.” Seales hopes that a partially read scroll, satisfactory with the contest conditions, will be seen by the end of this year, while a whole scroll ...

A Roman scroll, partially preserved when it was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, has been virtually unwrapped and decoded using artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved ...

With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers are now able to read 2,000-year-old passages of text from a scroll charred in the A.D. 79 eruption of Vesuvius that was long considered ...

Now, AI has decoded part of a scroll. When you purchase through links ... analysis finds. The text is from one of hundreds of scrolls and papyri that were deemed unreadable when they were ...

used artificial intelligence to identify a single word on the unopened scroll: “porphyras,” an ancient Greek word for “purple,” researchers announced last week. The text is one of some 800 ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them to generate the first image of the ancient text. The scroll was buried ...

(CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount ...

The text is part of a multi-volume work titled On Evil, written by Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher of the first century BCE. The scroll contains traces of ink that reveal the ancient Greek ...

A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a ...