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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggests some of the ancient manuscripts are up to 100 years older than once thought. - ...

(CNN) — At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal. After surviving the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the nearly 2,000-year-old documents would crumble if ...

The first text from a Herculaneum scroll which came from the Ancient Roman era has been deciphered by a computer science student with the help of an AI, with him training it to recognize the pattern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New imaging tools uncovered text that revises the timeline of Plato's life. A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of ...

A charred Roman scroll that was buried in the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 has partly been decoded by a group of classical scholars thanks to a team of three young computer scientists working with ...

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

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GRONINGEN, Netherlands — Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, ...