Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

The scroll — named PHerc ... Vices and their Opposite Virtues are known from the papyri that were physically unrolled — best known are On Property Management (book 9, presumably the opposite ...

172 has a title and an author, thanks to two researchers who have used their combined knowledge to tweak AI to provide images of the unrolled scroll. Marcel Roth, a student at Julius Maximilian ...

Eric Siblin is the author of the novel The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery. Plato, it might be presumed, was a big reader, but never turned the pages of a book. The Greek philosopher unrolled ...

indicating that this scroll is ‘Book 1’, but it could also be 'delta', suggesting Book 4. Other books from the On Vices are known from the Herculaneum papyri that were physically unrolled. The be ...

They unrolled them and found long manuscripts ... and he drew the inference from this that the scroll “had been in use by a very poor community for a considerable time and had only recently ...

Buried beneath the volcanic fury of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, this blackened relic from the Roman town of Herculaneum is rewriting history—without ever being unrolled. Known as PHerc. 172, the scroll ...

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