2,000-year-old scroll preserved by a volcano is finally readable. ... How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible?

The scroll, which now resembles a fist-sized glob of ash, was originally discovered in 1970 in Israel near the Dead Sea, in a damaged Holy Ark in an ancient Jewish synagogue. Until now it has been ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ancient text that lay sealed inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years.

The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been seen for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and X-ray imaging.

University of Nebraska undergraduate student Luke Farritor made a scientific breakthrough after using AI to decipher the first word written on a papyrus scroll that is more than 2,000 years old ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, charred scrolls from the 1st Century C.E. using X-rays and artificial intelligence.

The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years.

Hundreds of ancient papyrus scrolls that were buried nearly 2,000 years ago after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius could finally be read, thanks to a new technique.

A University of Nebraska undergraduate student has made history by using AI to read a section of a 2,000-year-old scroll. Luke Farritor was the first person to decipher a word from ancient scrolls ...