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Researchers have virtually unfurled a Herculaneum scroll which was rescued from Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

The title and author of a charred scroll recovered from Herculaneum have been identified by researchers. The ancient Roman town of Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption ...

To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...

Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls once buried by ...

Archaeologists make groundbreaking discovery after "unreadable" scroll becomes legible by using powerful x-rays and AI, with ...

The millennia-old scroll was burned in Vesuvius's pyroclastic flow - but now, its long-lost content can finally be read ...

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