New method may help read ancient Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them
Nature reports that researchers made and burned their own papyrus to develop a method that might help decipher unopened scrolls from Herculaneum.
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Thousands of long-lost ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Vesuvius might become readable, Nature says. Researchers made and burned their own papyrus to develop a method that, according to Nature, could help read unopened scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling them.
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