Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll ...

X-ray technology and artificial intelligence—along with the discovery of lead in the ink of fragments from a collection of ...

For all of the terrible uses for AI we constantly encounter out there in this fresh new hellscape of the internet, there are some positive uses out there. They are often found in scientific research, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plaster cast of a man killed by the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 also contains the remains of a small case and a small bag he ...

One of the most well-known disasters in human history took place in A.D. 79 in Pompeii, the prosperous Roman city near present-day Naples that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The ...

Vesuvius Revisited: A New Story of the Day the World Exploded It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how ...

Researchers have been able to read part of an ancient scroll burned by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago for the first time. The Herculaneum scrolls, named after a Roman town carbonized by the ...

A University of Kentucky project using artificial intelligence to help decode an ancient Roman mystery has led to a major discovery, researchers announced Thursday. In 79 A.D., the eruption of Mount ...