The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

Reading the Herculaneum scrolls ... in the ancient world, the inks were mainly based on carbon,... and the papyrus is carbon. So it's kind of hard to see the difference between the background ...

By 2016 he and his students had managed to read the Ein Gedi scroll, a charred ancient Hebrew text ... made the letters light up against a darker background. Seales’ team had high hopes to ...

“The Dead Sea Scrolls were extremely important when they were discovered, because they completely changed the way we think about ancient Judaism and early Christianity,” said ...

But efforts to interpret the scrolls have been going on much longer. The 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, a volcano located near Naples, Italy, covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...