An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable until recently.

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety for the first time, thanks to scans and AI software ...

The carbonized lumps turned out to be papyrus scrolls belonging to a great library full of Roman writing that had been thought lost. For this reason, the building is now known as the Villa dei Papiri.

The Herculaneum papyri are among the greatest unsolved puzzles in Roman archaeology. Charred by Vesuvius and locked shut for ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...

ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after ...