The Herculaneum scrolls were discovered in the 1700s. It's taken centuries for researchers to read one of them in its entirety.

Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid ...

Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll ...

Experiments with charred replica scrolls show lead-based ink makes carbonized Herculaneum texts visible to X-ray scans, ...

A team of researchers created their own contemporary model papyrus scrolls—charring them just like the originals—to validate ...

In a remarkable fusion of ancient and modern techniques, scientists have burned contemporary scrolls to unravel the secrets ...

X-ray technology and artificial intelligence—along with the discovery of lead in the ink of fragments from a collection of ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it didn't just destroy Pompei, it also laid waste to the nearby town of Herculaneum.

Learn how experiments with homemade scrolls could help reveal lost writing in the Herculaneum library buried by Mount ...

Scientists deliberately burned replica papyrus scrolls to understand how hidden writing inside the 2,000-year-old Herculaneum ...

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...