X-ray technique 'reads' burnt Vesuvius scroll
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There's rare books and then there's even more rare scrolls. From the BBC:
For the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
The scrolls of Herculaneum, the only classical library still in existence, were blasted by volcanic gas hotter than 300C and are desperately fragile.
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