Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by the eruption ...

For the first time ever, computer scientists are unlocking the secrets of hundreds of carbonized ancient scrolls from Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Computer scientist ...

A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ancient document after 2,000 years. One word appears more than once in the ...