The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be undecipherable. But new technology has allowed researchers to see what’s ...

If you're visiting southern Italy and planning a trip to Pompeii, there’s another ancient city you absolutely shouldn’t miss- Herculaneum. Tucked away on the Bay of Naples, this lesser-known ...

Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.

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3D mapping and artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient Herculaneum papyrus scroll which had been digitally scanned ...

A tourist from the Netherlands has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ...

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Scientists are using clever scanning techniques to identify the Greek text written within the ancient Herculaneum scrolls in Naples - without having to unroll the fragile 'papyrus' pages.

Students won a competition using AI to decipher never-before-seen passages from the Herculaneum scroll which was almost destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. Winning hundreds ...