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 ...

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 ...

The three students, from Egypt, Switzerland and the United States, who revealed the text share a US$700,000 grand prize. The scroll is one of hundreds of intact papyri excavated in the eighteenth ...

(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 ...

The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on the I12 beamline and the collected X-ray data has played a crucial role in deciphering the text of this ancient artifact. By scanning ...