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

Bodleian Library The ancient scroll was burnt to a crisp by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius "We're confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

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