A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount ...

Indoor air quality has become a bigger priority for me over the last few years, especially with two pets, seasonal allergies, and the occasional cooking mishap. I’ve tested several air purifiers that ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic ...

RSAC 2026 CONFERENCE – San Francisco – Each year SANS researchers head to the RSAC Conference to reveal the five top attack techniques. But 2026 marks a distinct shift: all are powered by artificial ...

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...

New light has been shed on the working methods—and attention to detail—of Ancient Egyptian craftspeople, after researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, identified what has been ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking letter written between two army scribes. A 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus ...

As part of open-sourcing Google Sans and Google Sans Flex, the company’s design team this week detailed the modern history of its fonts. Due to the 2015 Google logo redesign, the company created ...

When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl Street, near the Giza plateau, I expected a quick tour and perhaps a souvenir or two. What I didn’t expect was to be ...

Google Sans Flex is now freely available on Google Fonts. Offered under the SIL Open Font License, Google Sans Flex may be used for a wide range of purposes. Google Fonts offers tons of open-source ...

Typography nerds and Android fans, rejoice: You can now download an official version of "the next generation of Google's brand typeface." The company has released the ...