IF YOU WANTED to learn an historical Roman scroll, you may attain for a dictionary, and maybe a magnifying glass. You’d in all probability not consider utilizing a particle accelerator. However that’s what is required to unravel the papyrus scrolls present in Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Even then, success is way from assured: since 2023 researchers trying to unravel the scrolls have been caught on the primary few. Now, armed with extra knowledge and a extra highly effective particle accelerator, they anticipate to make extra speedy headway.
