The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...