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

They are, rightly, some of the most read writings from the ancient world. The second category of writing was the 600-1,000 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ships from Lake Nemi are a sensational find. They show technology that the Romans would never have been expected to have - including real ball bearings. But in 1944, the Second World War reaches ...

Ancient furnace workers experimented with heating the ends of glass tubes to rework them. One day, someone blew into that ...