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Vesuvius Buried Them. AI Is Bringing Them Back. Inside the Stunning Recovery of Rome's Lost Scrolls.

The Villa of the Papyri collection is the only known library to survive from antiquity. The Villa of the Papyri collection is the only known library to survive from antiquity. Still, its prized texts have long been impossible to read. 

Even the slightest brush can turn them to dust. Now, nearly 2,000 years after the Vesuvian tragedy, the scrolls are giving up their secrets at last. Using particle accelerators and artificial intelligence, researchers finally have the ability to virtually “unwrap” the Herculaneum scrolls and read their contents.

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