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 field of archaeology has been revolutionized by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). The most recent achievement has been the decoding of a 2,000-year-old scroll without the need for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scroll was discovered in the Qumran Cave in the Judean Desert in 1952, about 6 miles outside of Jericho, in the West Bank. It ...

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 ...

The Vesuvius Challenge announced that a team of students decoded the text of a 2,000-year-old volcanically preserved scroll. What does it say? Photo from EduceLab via the University of Kentucky How do ...

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 ...