Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...

(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 ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ancient text that lay sealed inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years.

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 ...

The Vesuvius Challenge announced that a team of students decoded the text of a 2,000-year-old volcanically preserved scroll. What does it say? Photo from EduceLab via the University of Kentucky How do ...