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 ...

A newly deciphered scroll from Herculaneum provides new details about the life of Plato, one of the most famous philosophers of all time. The content of the ancient scroll — found in the 18th ...

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After two millennia, the first full word from one of the unopened ancient papyri has been decoded ... Seales hopes that a partially read scroll, satisfactory with the contest conditions, will ...

And now computer scientists from the University of Kentucky have used to tech to read an ancient scroll that was burned in a volcanic eruption nearly two thousand years ago. The papyrus scrolls ...

Photo from the University of Pisa The content of the ancient scroll — found in the 18th century in a Herculaneum villa believed to have been owned by a relative of Julius Caesar — also sheds ...

Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries ...

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By Nicholas Wade From deep within a papyrus scroll that has not been read in ... “porphyras,” ancient Greek for “purple.” Experts who announced the findings on Thursday hope that the ...