Published on
30/06/2026 - 15:11 GMT+2
An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets.
Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used artificial intelligence to uncover what ended up being, rather ironically, a philosophical treatise on ethics, human nature and moral progress.
PHerc. 1667, as the scroll was dubbed, belonged to a library of carbonised manuscripts first unearthed in the 1750s in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum.
