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X-ray reveals the secrets of burned Vesuvius scrolls
X-ray reveals the secrets of burned Vesuvius scrolls
Scrolls that were damaged, but not destroyed, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may now be read for the first time in nearly two millennia.
Scroll PHerc.Paris 4 (top) and the complex folds inside.D. Delattre © Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France and Mocella et al. Nature Communications
A cache of papyrus scrolls damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may not be destined to keep their secrets…
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