But in 1752, excavation uncovered hundreds of papyrus scrolls in the library of an ... did not immediately recognize them as ancient books. The papyri are so brittle that many were destroyed ...

For Nicole Gilroy, head of book conservation ... Unlike other ancient texts, which were often copied and recopied over centuries, some of these scrolls are likely originals, preserved exactly ...

Artificial intelligence is even peering through the most impenetrable of artifacts: ancient, charred scrolls that are too delicate to be unfurled. Scholars have deciphered some of the first words ...

New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient ... the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to ...

In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

Named the Herculaneum Scrolls, after the city they were found in, the collection is the only library left from the ancient world. But their secrets remained unknown for the last 272 years.