Modern technology is transforming the study of the ancient world. Archaeologists and historians now have access to scientific ...

From Greek fire to Roman concrete, scientists still don't totally understand how these marvelous ancient inventions ...

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Researchers used AI tools to achieve the first complete viewings of closed scrolls burnt by the eruption that buried the ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human ...

AI helped researchers recover the complete text of a sealed Herculaneum scroll, marking a breakthrough in reading ancient ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

After a centuries-long struggle, scholars managed to read five feet of text, using machine-learning methods they hope can ...

Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, ...

Earliest quasar variability ever detected shows a 630-million-solar-mass black hole at cosmic dawn already had an orderly ...