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 ...

Two people were arrested and charged following a narcotics search warrant executed Wednesday in the Bassett area, according to the Henry County Sheriff’s Office. LONDON – Scientists hope a mix of ...

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 ...

Scholars Finally Deciphered a Burned Pompeii Scroll That Spent Centuries in a 'Very Unreadable State' ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose ...

A new study has found that wasabi—the spicy green paste that pairs well with sushi—can be used as a tool to conserve ancient papyrus scrolls. Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have reportedly made an extraordinary discovery. In the sands of Luxor, a hidden chamber was recently ...

Endless Thread presents an episode from New Hampshire Public Radio's Outside/In: While digging a well in 1750, a group of workers accidentally discovered an ancient Roman villa containing over a ...

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 ...