LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ...

Recently, a remarkable discovery has been made. Ancient Chinese scrolls, well-preserved and steeped in history, are shedding new light on our understanding of optics. These ancient texts suggest an ...

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, have long mesmerized scholars with their mysteries. Discovered in the 1750s at the villa of Julius ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ...

Over 1,000 words, or about 30% of the text, has been deciphered, university officials said. Photo from the University of Pisa For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum ...

The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Such breakthroughs rarely happen in the derring-do fashion of ...

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...