Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy -- and, it turns out, lead pollution.