For hundreds of years, hundreds of burnt Herculaneum scrolls had been entombed in ash after the 2,000-year-old eruption of ...

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

This project was first launched in March 2023 and aimed to “make history” by encouraging individuals and teams of people to find ways to read the scrolls recovered from Herculaneum. These scrolls were ...

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

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

The villa was buried under tons of ash and pumice when the city of Herculaneum ... in the 18th century recovered many of the ancient papyri, most of which are held at the National Library of ...

potentially uncovering vast amounts of untapped historical knowledge stored within the Villa of the Papyri. Additionally, a new $100,000 grand prize has been announced for teams capable of ...

More than 1,800 carbonized papyri were discovered in the eighteenth century among the remains of a luxurious Roman villa at Herculaneum, near Naples. Although many were torn to pieces by various ...

These scrolls were once housed at the Villa Papyri, a wealthy estate that belonged ... an Epicurean philosopher and poet who was popular in Herculaneum where he lived until his death in around ...

The majority of the scrolls found preserved in the Herculaneum villa were his works ... and their Opposite Virtues are known from the papyri that were physically unrolled — best known are ...