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

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred scrolls.

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials in tombs covered with tuff slabs, some engraved with decorations.

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

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

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

Mount Vesuvius, the infamous volcano that looms over the Bay of Naples, is a destination that captivates travelers with its ...