X-ray scans and AI have meant the inside of ancient scroll can be revealed A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside ...

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 ...

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

To be able to read the scroll, the scientists took it to Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, where it was placed inside a huge machine called a synchrotron. Then it was hit with a powerful X-ray ...

The scroll was placed inside a synchrotron, a machine that uses electrons to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can look into the scroll without damaging it. The scan creates a 3D reconstruction ...

A "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside a burnt Roman scroll in 2,000 years. Researchers have taken steps to decipher text preserved on ...