After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ancient text, ...

The Mongolian collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin contains a unique Gungervaa shrine. Among the objects found inside were three tiny scrolls, wrapped in silk. Using ...

Thanks to artificial intelligence, a Herculaneum scroll discovered in Pompeii has finally been deciphered more than 2,000 years after it was first written. According to a new study published in Nature ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it buried several seaside Roman cities including Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving them under thick volcanic material for many centuries. In the 1750s, hundreds ...

Using a high-tech imaging technique, delicate silk-wrapped scrolls from a Mongolian Buddhist shrine have been “virtually unrolled.” Interestingly, the technique revealed their contents without ...

Scrolls that were damaged, but not destroyed, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may now be read for the first time in nearly two millennia. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

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