Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left: Restored images of papyrus scrolls from Mount Vesuvius. Over 2,000 characters composing 15 lines of an ancient Greek scroll ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ...

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ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

People write down lots of things—from epic poems and sacred texts to tax decrees and shopping lists. But these things are of little use to anyone if they can’t be read. In the past few decades, ...

On 27 March, a private jet arrived at London Luton Airport with some unusual, delicate cargo. Rather than designer luggage, the plane carried 18 ancient scrolls from the Vittorio Emanuele III National ...

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

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