The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in England. A team involved in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition offering ...

The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... and Silicon Valley backers. The thick, paper-like material called papyrus cannot be physically opened as ...

A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ancient document after 2,000 years. One word appears more than once in ...

(CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of ...

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A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring ...