There are lost ancient texts hiding before our very eyes. Writers weren't always intending their words for long-term preservation, and the need to reuse precious resources, like animal hide, sometimes ...

In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice. Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later ...

Historical documents considered lost to the ravages of time—like crumbling parchment thousands of years old or medieval manuscripts whose ink long ago faded away—are being given a new life thanks to a ...

What looks like a log of charcoal is priceless ancient text that's now decipherable thanks to open-source AI. Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the ...

Artificial intelligence is now better at deciphering damaged ancient Greek texts than humans, scientists have said. A team of researchers has created the "first ancient text restoration model," which ...

In 2013, two local Iraqis handed over two inscribed clay cylinders to the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Subsequent analysis and translation of the inscriptions published in Iraq revealed ...

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, ...

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When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue’s Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ancient ...

As a parenthood writer, I read a lot of parenting books. Most of them underwhelm by either repeating the obvious or suggesting approaches that are in deep denial of the vagaries of human nature. Very ...