{"id":4119,"date":"2025-02-05T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/herculaneum-scrolls-breakthrough-scientists-digitally-unroll-2000-year-old-scroll-scorched-by-mount-vesuvius\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:32:09","slug":"herculaneum-scrolls-breakthrough-scientists-digitally-unroll-2000-year-old-scroll-scorched-by-mount-vesuvius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/herculaneum-scrolls-breakthrough-scientists-digitally-unroll-2000-year-old-scroll-scorched-by-mount-vesuvius\/","title":{"rendered":"Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally &#8220;unroll&#8221; 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>London \u2014<\/em>\u00a0The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/herculaneum-scrolls-can-technology-unravel-the-secrets-sealed-by-mt-vesuvius-2000-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Herculaneum scrolls<\/a><\/span> 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 rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum \u2014 an ancient Roman town near Pompeii \u2014 in the mid-18th century. Both towns were decimated by the Vesuvius eruption, and most of the scrolls were so badly charred they were impossible to open.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/11\/16\/the-invisible-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/scroll-buried-mount-vesuvius-eruption-deciphered-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">managed to decipher<\/a><\/span> some select words using artificial intelligence, X-ray and CT scans to distinguish ink from the papyrus it was printed on.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"scrolls-herculaneum.jpg \" height=\"391\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/01\/20\/ec458688-5d7f-41ba-80ce-9a253a20639e\/thumbnail\/620x391\/83b90ad0ab376a13d1760e1363644d98\/scrolls-herculaneum.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/01\/20\/ec458688-5d7f-41ba-80ce-9a253a20639e\/thumbnail\/1240x782\/1f124f8f54683ee23818a3137c1615f1\/scrolls-herculaneum.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">The papyrus scrolls found in a Herculaneum villa in the 1750s were badly charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Since their discovery in the 1700s, researchers have tried many techniques to unroll the charred, delicate texts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                E. Brun<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mystery is still unravelling, and on Wednesday, a major breakthrough was announced. Researchers say they&#8217;ve now managed to digitally unroll and start reading one of the ancient scrolls. The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Bodleian Libraries in England.<\/p>\n<p>A team involved in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition offering prize money to anyone who can help unlock the delicate scrolls, says it has virtually unwrapped the papyrus to reveal columns of text that Oxford scholars have already started working to decipher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This scroll contains more recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll,&#8221; said Brent Seales, one of the co-founders of the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it&#8217;s the first time we&#8217;ve really been able to say that with high confidence,&#8221; project lead Stephen Parsons told CBS News&#8217; partner network BBC News. &#8220;Now we can work on making it show up more clearly. We&#8217;re going to go from a handful of words to really substantial passages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came when the team at the Bodleian Libraries brought the blackened scroll to the Diamond Light Source research facility in nearby Oxfordshire, where technicians used a massive machine called a synchrotron to create a powerful X-ray beam that was able to peer into the fragile relic without damaging it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can see things on the scale of a few thousandths of a millimeter,&#8221; Adrian Mancuso,  the facility&#8217;s director of physical sciences, told the BBC. &#8220;We have to work out which layer is different from the next layer so we can unroll that digitally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Vesuvius Challenge <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/deciphering-the-ancient-scrolls-of-herculaneum-60-minutes-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">announced<\/a><\/span> that three young students had won its 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