Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, ...

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A.I. is allowing archeologists to perform studies that would have been impossible with other, conventional research ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

The Vesuvius Challenge, a mix of AI and antiquities, has caused no small measure of excitement among classics enthusiasts.

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

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 ...

An ancient papyrus scroll left "unreadable" after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is finally revealing ...

PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...