Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...