Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in ash. Today, the city is a time ...

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces where they used to be. Casts were created from the voids in the ...

Historians have long believed that Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 AD, destroying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii. But now, an inscription has been uncovered dated to mid-October - almost ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

These scrolls known by the seductive name of the Herculaneum papyri have been unreadable since Mount Vesuvius erupted in ... trained his machine-learning model on those characters to look for ...

Also: AI breakthrough enables scientists to read Roman scrolls once buried by Mount Vesuvius So, what areas should you focus ... Now, you can write code by saying to a model, 'Okay, write me something ...

Farritor was the first to read a word from one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls as part of the Vesuvius Challenge — a competition with $1,000,000 in prizes for people who can unlock the ...

On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in ash. Today, the city is a time ...