Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on traditional ...

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

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

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have its secrets revealed. After 2,000years, the contents of the scroll can ...

The strides made to unroll this scroll are said to mark a "significant step" forward in researchers' ability to recover texts from the ancient world. The image of the virtually unrolled scroll ...

The strides made to unroll this scroll are said to mark a "significant step" forward in researchers' ability to recover texts from the ancient world. The image of the virtually unrolled scroll shows a ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the first glimpse inside the ancient document since it was buried by Mount Vesuvius ...

One of the first words to be translated was the Ancient Greek διατροπή meaning ‘disgust,’ which appears twice within a few columns of text. Efforts are now underway by University of Oxford scholars to ...

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... Some letters are already clearly visible in the ancient text and the team believes it's a work of philosophy. Hundreds of carbonised ...