IF YOU WANTED to learn an historic Roman scroll, you would possibly 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 much from assured: since 2023, researchers making an attempt to unravel the scrolls have been caught on the primary few. Now, armed with extra knowledge and a extra highly effective particle accelerator, they count on to make extra fast headway.
