A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Hacker News reports a breakthrough from the Scrollprize project: researchers have successfully read a Herculaneum scroll for the first time. Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by Mount Vesuvius in seventy-nine AD, sealed thousands of unopened documents. This achievement marks the first successful decipherment of one of these ancient texts, recovering content lost for nearly two thousand years.

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