New Technology Could Finally Make Ancient Pompeii Scrolls Readable

The two unopened scrolls that will be probed belong to the Institut deFrance in Paris and are part of an astonishing collection of about 1,800scrolls that was first discovered in 1752 during excavations ofHerculaneum. Together they make up the only known intact library fromantiquity, with the majority of the collection now preserved in a museumin Naples. – The Guardian