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 ...

In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and ... a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls. Like everything around them, these ...

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two ...

If no more scrolls are discovered, “this will still change our understanding of the ancient world,” says Garrett Ryan, a historian and podcaster who studies ancient Greece and Rome.

Languages: English, Spanish A remarkable ancient papyrus has shed new light on Roman legal proceedings in the Near East. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna ...

Image: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images/Gizmodo Researchers are using cutting-edge AI models to “read” ancient scrolls superheated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, which covered much of ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many ... were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding ...

Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky. IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would ...