and therefore the writing doesn't fade. The whole papyrus would originally have been about 17 feet (or 5m) long and would normally have been rolled up in a scroll. Today it's in three pieces - the ...

Now, scientists are offering £400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls. These ancient rolls of papyrus – a material similar to paper – are thought to contain ...

Light of different frequencies can bring out writing that is obscured by the ... scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the ...

Some 2,000 years ago, the famous philosopher’s burial was recorded on a papyrus scroll housed in the Roman city of Herculaneum, according to a statement from Italy’s National Research Council.

When they do get the full picture of what the scroll contains, Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, expects it to contain familiar themes. "What I expect is writing ...

and therefore the writing doesn't fade. The whole papyrus would originally have been about 17 feet (or 5m) long and would normally have been rolled up in a scroll. Today it's in three pieces - the ...

AI has analyzed a 2000-year-old burned parchment, and found mention of the generals and usurpers who succeeded Alexander the ...