About 800 scrolls have been excavated from the site to date. “Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” Robert Fowler, chair of the ...

Three young scientists have won the grand prize in the Vesuvius Challenge for deciphering passages on a previously unreadable ... scrolls since then, but most attempts have destroyed the ancient ...

It is the largest expansion of ancient text sources in 100 years. Among other things, AI helps to complete unreadable scrolls, but also helps to understand and translate unknown languages.

Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be salvaged ... For centuries, these scrolls have been deemed “unreadable” due to the damage sustained from the eruption, leaving the ...

The image showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt ... to decipher ancient texts that had remained unreadable for centuries. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University ...

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.