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Mount Vesuvius Buried These Scrolls for 2,000 Years – Now Scientists May Read Them


ged 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.

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