A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2 ...

Recorded in front of an audience and to accompany a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, actors have brought this ...

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

Some of the interviews which were not published in the 1930s detail domestic tensions, Ms Reubens said. "In one case there's ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read ...

When Vaisey took the Bodleian’s top job in 1986, having risen through the ranks from lowly postgraduate archivist to Keeper of Western Manuscripts, the library was facing what seemed the ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago was uncovered.

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...