This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

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This month’s pick is Reykjavik, co-written by Ragnar Jonasson and Katrin Jakobsdottir, the prime minister of Iceland.

Knife isn’t set in Hampi. It was the next Rushdie book I read. It is a painful, and gripping narrative. But it is also ...

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Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

It makes me feel awful. The things I once found beautiful escape my notice, become ghosts at the periphery of a screen. In a ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're reading it.

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...