The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius ...

A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... When the document was virtually unrolled on a computer, several columns of text were revealed. One word in the Ancient Greek text ...

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization ... extract letters and symbols from X-ray images of the unrolled papyri. Thousands of 3D X-ray images of two rolled ...

The heat and volcanic ash from Vesuvius destroyed the town and preserved the scrolls, but in an unreadable state, turning them into charred fragile blocks that disintegrate if unrolled physically.

Millennia later, in the mid-18th century, archeologists began to unearth the city, including its famed libraries, but the scrolls they found were too fragile to be unrolled and read; their ...

Currently, researchers have only unrolled and deciphered about 5% of a single scroll. Scholars are hoping to find lost treasures from Aristotle or Homer in the other 280 papyri, Nature reported.