An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum.

One of the buildings buried in Herculaneum was a large villa, possibly belonging to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesonius, the father-in-law of Julius Caesar.

The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, Italy in March, 2003. Photo by Eric Vandeville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from ...

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, ... Preserved under mud and ash in a villa believed to have been once owned by the father-in ...

The gardens of Pompeii Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius Wilhelmina F. Jashemski ; photographs, drawings, and plans, Stanley A. Jashemski Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object ...

Today, over 300 unopened scrolls remain, mercifully sparing the early, crude attempts at revealing their contents. One of the unwrapped Herculaneum papyri.

What did this scroll, from a Herculaneum villa believed to have been owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, have to say? To find out, ...

The Getty Villa was designed and constructed as a full-scale replica of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, in what is now southern Italy. From 1974 to 1997, the Villa housed the Getty Museum’s ...

Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in ...

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...