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

Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).

It’s not about changing beliefs — it’s about embracing them at. Students explore religion, build critical thinking and grow ...

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

An early Western attempt to classify plants was made in the fourth century by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher. He divided the plant world into trees, shrubs, and herbs.

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

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice.

“ Flooding the zone ,” a term borrowed from football, was former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s way of describing the Trumpian tactic of issuing a barrage of statements whose sheer pace and multiplicity ...

It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years. Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls ...