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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.
A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian ...
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 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 Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, Italy in March, 2003. Photo by Eric Vandeville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
Today, over 300 unopened scrolls remain, mercifully sparing the early, crude attempts at revealing their contents. One of the unwrapped Herculaneum papyri.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...