scrolls

Executive Overview For nearly two millennia, the carbonized remains of the Herculaneum scrolls have sat locked in their fragile, charred, and seemingly impenetrable cylindrical tombs. Buried and calcified by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE—the same cataclysm that entombed Pompeii—these ancient papyri represent one of the greatest linguistic treasures of the classical…