Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do ...

Three researchers this week won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One expert said the breakthrough ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival philosophy’s private doubts alongside the public ideal of unshakable virtue.

In this section of the scroll, the author takes a shot at his adversaries, who “have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.” Artificial ...

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This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains ...

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 ...