Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Farritor used machine learning models to separate the carbonized ink from the carbonized paper, eventually revealing the Greek word for “purple.” That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and ...

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 ...