How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do you read the unreadable? That was the paradox posed by a volcanically ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 21 years, cutting-edge technology pioneered at the University of Kentucky is being used to read a 2,000-year-old scroll. The Herculaneum scrolls were burned and buried in ...

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A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ancient document after 2,000 years. One word appears more than once in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 21 years, ...