The blackened, fragile scrolls cannot be physically opened without severe damage. Researchers have instead used ...

After a centuries-long struggle, scholars managed to read five feet of text, using machine-learning methods they hope can ...

AI helped researchers recover the complete text of a sealed Herculaneum scroll, marking a breakthrough in reading ancient ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything ...