Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization ... Often, the density of the ink compared to the paper makes it easy to find with a CT scan. Unfortunately, the carbon ...

The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... and Silicon Valley backers. The thick, paper-like material called papyrus cannot be physically opened as ...

In 2024, he catapulted into the limelight by doing something that had stumped historians for centuries—deciphering a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum using artificial ...