(CNN) — After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ...
Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...
ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...
OUR sources of information in regard to the ancient world are fortunately no longer confined to books. The spade of the excavator has done more of late to illustrate the classics, to extend our ...
On a Saturday night in late August, Luke Farritor, a 21-year old computer science student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was on his way home from a party at a friend's house in Omaha when he saw ...
Hundreds of badly charred ancient Roman scrolls found in a Roman villa have long been believed to be unreadable, but a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has ...
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, volcanic ...
The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 is a historical event that has captivated the imagination of scholars, historians, and the general public alike. While the ancient city of Pompeii ...
It’s a peculiar historical quirk that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum also created one of the most detailed portraits of the ancient world ...
The Herculaneum victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD were blasted with such extreme heat that their soft tissue disappeared, scientists have discovered. In a paper released May 27, ...
The treasures of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum continue to travel the world, guardians of a unique history and ambassadors of Italian cultural excellence. On the occasion of the international ...
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