In 2018, in the north of the Alps, archaeologists unearthed an ancient silver amulet, which they later recognized as the oldest known Christian artifact to be found in the region. What they couldn’t ...

Reading the Herculaneum scrolls required multiple scientific steps that started with taking extremely high-resolution X-rays with a photon beam. Next, computer scientist Brent Seales created a ...

Artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient papyrus scroll, which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first passages of ...

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Hundreds of badly charred ancient Roman scrolls found in a Roman villa have long been believed to be unreadable, but a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has ...

At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made hundreds of years ago. From afar, her embroideries and paintings could easily ...

Artificial intelligence is used to find out what some carbonized Herculaneum scrolls say. Reading the Herculaneum scrolls required multiple scientific steps that started with taking extremely ...