Decoding History: Scholarly Pursuit of the Million-Dollar Vesuvius Challenge
Among the many cities destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD was Herculaneum, a Roman city that housed a library. Nearly 1,700 years later, the remains of about 800 papyrus scrolls buried about 20 meters deep in mud and virtually fossilized over time were discovered. Since then, researchers have attempted to decipher … Read more