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 ...
About 800 scrolls have been excavated from the site to date. “Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” Robert Fowler, chair of the ...
Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be salvaged ... For centuries, these scrolls have been deemed “unreadable” due to the damage sustained from the eruption, leaving the ...
The image showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt ... to decipher ancient texts that had remained unreadable for centuries. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University ...