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Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries ...

Such virtual unrolling is a two-stage process pioneered by W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky.

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features, and more.

A MYSTERIOUS Roman scroll could hold the key to unlocking lost knowledge of the ancient world — and a £400,000 prize awaits anyone who can crack it. Known as PHerc.172, the relic was blackened ...

The scroll from Ein Gedi was a verifiable copy of the first two chapters of Leviticus and it was verified by scholars outside my group, biblical scholars, so fully vetted. Reading inside of the ...

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 ...

Team leader Youssef Nader and two other team members used AI to reveal 15 columns of text from an ancient scroll buried by volcanic debris from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Almost none of the Dead Sea Scrolls — which were written mostly in Hebrew on parchment and papyrus — have dates on them. Based primarily on paleography, the study and deciphering of ancient ...

I F YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. ... so there is very little contrast against the background of carbonised papyrus.