History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text. By Timothy Revell. ... but the dating methods revealed that the oldest pages are from somewhere between 224 AD and 383 AD.

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known alphabetic writing in an ancient Syrian city, suggesting alphabets may be ...

Ancient scrolls uncovered from volcanic mud The 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, a volcano located near Naples, Italy, covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic mud.

World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the origin of writing ...

Ancient scrolls uncovered from volcanic mud The 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, a volcano located near Naples, Italy, covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic mud.

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 ...

It was originally thought that the manuscript was from the 9th century, but the dating methods revealed that the oldest pages are from somewhere between 224 AD and 383 AD.

Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.

A recent batch of carbon dating is causing the history of mathematics to be rewritten, as it has discovered zeros dating back to a period 500 years be ...