How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do you read the unreadable? That was the paradox posed by a volcanically ...
In the year 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted in Southern Italy, engulfing the region in scalding ash and smoke. This eruption ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 21 years, cutting-edge technology pioneered at the University of Kentucky is being used to read a 2,000-year-old scroll. The Herculaneum scrolls were burned and buried in ...
The word "disgust" can be seen outlined in red down low in this high-resolution image of the scorched scroll. With the help of X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence, scientists have peered inside ...
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(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 Oxford’s ...