Using the X-ray, the researchers were able to look inside the burned scroll, which was made up of ancient paper called carbonised papyrus. They virtually unwrapped the scroll and, for the first ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a ...

The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on the I12 beamline and the collected X-ray data has played a crucial role in deciphering the text of this ancient artifact. By scanning ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius. CNN values your feedback 1.

Researchers say they've now managed to digitally unroll and start reading one of the ancient scrolls. The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of ...

“We can tell the entire scroll is full of text,” said Stephen Parsons, lead researcher of the Vesuvius Challenge, an international competition to decode ancient manuscripts. “Now we can work on making ...

Ancient Scroll - the game is a mixture of an adventure game and classic quests. You have to go to an abandoned ranch in search of an ancient scroll. Where an exciting adventure awaits you, hiding ...

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 ...

For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum has puzzled archaeologists. Damaged by the famed eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the scrolls had remained inscrutable — ...

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 ...