The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The Herculaneum Scroll was discovered in the 1700s. It had been buried in volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius, which carbonized the scrolls and made them impossible to open. The Vesuvius Challenge offers ...

Almost 2000 years after they were buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, scrolls from a library in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum have begun to reveal their secrets. The ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice, freezing a moment in time. Among the artifacts preserved were hundreds of papyrus ...

After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year ...

College Student Uses Machine Learning to Decipher Word in Ancient Roman Scroll Researchers have been itching to see what's written on ancient Roman scrolls recovered from the lost cities of ...