For the first time, an entire word and several letters have been decoded from a scorched and carbonized scroll that barely survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius' in A.D. 79. That word — πορφύραc in ...

A computer science student has won $40,000 for deciphering the first word on an ancient Roman scroll carbonized by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. The papyrus scroll looks more like a burnt log ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Previously hidden text on fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now readable, revealing a possible ...

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A section of the digitally unwrapped Ein Gedi scroll, bearing text from Leviticus. Seth Parker-University of Kentucky More than four decades ago, an archaeologist discovered a scroll in the ruins of ...

A collection of Dead Sea Scroll fragments, once thought to be blank and "relatively worthless," have been kept in boxes at The University of Manchester in England for over two decades. A professor ...

Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments. Found in a desert cave and likely stashed away during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 ...

A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic ...

BEIJING, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The Chinese military released an animated short film on National Day showing pieces of a scroll painting torn in two more than 300 years ago being reunited, in a show of the ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have used a new digital reconstruction technique to resurrect one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament from a Hebrew scroll that was burned ...