A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in a new era for the study of the ancient world.

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human behavior and theology.

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A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

Back in 79 AD, in the Romanian Herculaneum, a volcanic eruption struck the heart of Mount Vesuvius and presumed to have charred the remains of an ancient, sealed scroll. The mysteries of this scroll ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The papyrus scroll known as PHerc. 1667 contains a philosophical treatise on ethics, arts and human nature. Vesuvius Challenge ...

Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a carbonized form so fragile that scholars dared not touch it. But scientists found a workaround, as they typically tend ...

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

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