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Scientists Digitally Unwrap and Read an Entire Herculaneum Scroll without Opening It

The advance uses synchrotron X‑ray scans, geometric flattening and machine learning to recover text and could scale to read many more sealed scrolls.

10,500-Year-Old Aurochs Skull on Pine Stake Suggests Ritual Display Near Northern Germany’s Oldest Known Grave

Study Recasts Serbian Iron Age Mass Grave as Targeted Massacre

AI Simulations Reconstruct Likely Rules of Roman-Era Board Game From Dutch Artifact

Oldest Known Handheld Wooden Tools, 430,000 Years Old, Unearthed in Greece

Oldest Direct Evidence of Poisoned Arrows Found on 60,000-Year-Old Tools in South Africa

Scientists Find 60,000-Year-Old Evidence of Poisoned Hunting Weapons in South Africa

Cow Tooth Study Strengthens Stonehenge’s Link to Wales

AI Deciphers Title of Herculaneum Scroll for the First Time

AI Deciphers Text in 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll

7,000-Year-Old Archery Artifacts Unearthed in Spain Shed Light on Neolithic Craftsmanship

Ancient Alaskan Sites Reveal Early Human-Canine Relationships

AI Deciphers Ancient Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius, Unveiling Epicurean Texts