A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

Egyptologist and first author of the study Thomas Christiansen from the University of Copenhagen said that the composition of ink on papyrus varied at the same location, as per Ancient Origins.

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's "too fragile to ever be physically opened", said the BBC. That delicacy ...

A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ancient document ... because the papyrus and ink are both made from ...

Bodleian Library The ancient scroll was burnt to a crisp ... It's easier said than done - both the papyrus and ink are made from carbon and they're almost indistinguishable from each other.

Ancient Egyptians used the papyrus plant to make sails ... “At first I thought it was gold (ink), but, after (further) analysis, I realised it was another material," Ms Mohamed said.

In 1756, Abbot Piagio, conserver of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican ... up variations in the way light bounces off the black ink on the papyrus. A newly discovered passage from one of the ...

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned ... AI is then used to detect the ink - a tricky feat since both the papyrus (thick paper) and the ink have both turned to carbon and are now almost ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek ... X-ray and CT scans to distinguish ink from the papyrus it was printed on. The mystery is still unravelling ...

Researchers have taken steps to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls, housed at the Bodleian Libraries, from the ancient Roman town ... composition of its ink, which appears more clearly ...

Her discovery would turn out to be the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert, a remarkable document that reveals an ancient tale of financial crimes in the Roman Empire.