Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be ...

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, scientists are offering £400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls.

It was first thought to be a 14th century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...

Farritor's use of AI to read letters from the Herculaneum scrolls came as they were considered too fragile to unfurl and, according to the Vesuvius Challenge website, they would "turn to dust" if ...

Lesser-known Herculaneum, which was devastated by the ... the only surviving library of the ancient world. Its thousands of scrolls were carbonised into hardened lumps by the heat of the volcanic ...

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman ...

They're offering up a $1 million US cash prize to anyone who can "make history by reading an unopened Herculaneum scroll for the very first time." The scrolls belong to the Institut de France ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash.