A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

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A pedestrian's discovery of stones helped archaeologists uncover an Ancient Roman building near a Swiss highway. The site was previously excavated in the 1860's, but forgotten.

The scroll is one of hundreds of ancient texts found in a villa believed to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. The building was buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, ...

Measuring as long as 10 metres, a papyrus scroll could contain an entire play by Sophocles or a dialogue of Plato’s. It could be conveniently read, rolled up, carried, and stored on a shelf.

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls. The title has been unread for nearly 2,000 years, ever ...

How X-Ray Offered Peek Inside 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was written ...

Whilst the scroll’s author and title are now clear, where the text sits within the On Vices series, known by scholars to be at least 10 books long, is still open to interpretation.

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls—charred and buried nearly two thousand years ago during Mount Vesuvius’s eruption —finally reveal their long-lost writings, thanks to the UK’s Diamond Light Source ...

Photos of the papyrus fragments. Credit: Sara Stabile / CC BY 4.0 A rare set of 18 ancient scrolls from the ruins of Herculaneum, preserved for nearly two thousand years by volcanic ash, has arrived ...