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2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Deciphered Using Light Beams Brighter Than Sun

The Herculaneum Papyri is a group of carbonized texts that contains the works of Greek philosophers like Philodemus of Gadara. The texts were carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Campania, Italy, in A.D. 79. Scientists now plan on using light beams far brighter than the sun to decipher the elusive contents of ...

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A carbonized Herculaneum Papyrus.