In a First, Scientists Fully Read a Charred Herculaneum Scroll—Without Ever Opening It

Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a carbonized form so fragile that scholars ...
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Ancient Roman scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius digitally unrolled in full for first time

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...