A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a ...

Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, ... Text from the Herculaneum scroll, which has been unseen for 2,000 years.