A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred scrolls.

The “Vesuvius Challenge” competition, claiming reward as AI mixed with human expertise, led to the deciphering of age-old scrolls. The scrolls were carbonised by a volcanic eruption 2000 years ago.

After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year ...

Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're reading it.

Scientists use artificial intelligence and human expertise to decipher ancient scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...