When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the summer of 79 A.D, a pyroclastic flow, a superheated concoction of gas, ash, and volcanic rock, roared down the mountain’s slopes, obliterating everything in its path ...

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A University of Nebraska undergraduate student has made history by using AI to read a section of a 2,000-year-old scroll. Luke Farritor was the first person to decipher a word from ancient scrolls as ...

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A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

LONDON — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were ...

LUKE FARRITOR: (Reading) They have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in the particular, when it is a question of definition. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: That's Luke Farritor, one of three ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

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NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, charred scrolls from the 1st Century C.E.... A team of students deciphered a 2000-year-old ...