Scientists May Soon Be Able to Read More Ancient Scrolls Damaged by Mount Vesuvius Eruption
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Scientists may soon be able to read more ancient scrolls damaged by Mount Vesuvius eruption
Recreating burned ancient scrolls and scanning them for lead may help scientists read some of the more complex writings that were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Mount Vesuvius Buried These Scrolls for 2,000 Years – Now Scientists May Read Them
Researchers recreated a damaged ancient scroll to test a new way to study the past. Lead in ancient ink could help researchers read the Herculaneum papyri, Roman scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Many are now too brittle to open, and reading them with X-rays poses its own problem. The ink and [...]
A team of scientists did something that sounds particularly paradoxical, but it could very well help them read lost ancient texts. They made their own papyri, rolled them up, and then burned them. In this way, they wanted to try a new way of reading ancient texts, without the need to open the extremely delicate scrolls of […]
On the papyrus, teens recruited for the occasion have copied with reed pens from the replicas of Star Wars, Bible verses and a sentence taken...
Scientists have developed an innovative method that uses lead to decipher texts on carbonized scrolls, such as those found in Herculano, Italy. These documents, dating back to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.,...
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