Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk is keen to help with efforts to decode 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls. In a post on X, the billionaire volunteered funds for the Vesuvius Challenge project. Musk told Bloomberg that he was ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, volcanic ...

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