The blackened, fragile scrolls cannot be physically opened without severe damage. Researchers have instead used high-resolution scans and computational techniques to "virtually unwrap" them.

Researchers have for the first time virtually unwrapped and read an entire sealed Herculaneum papyrus scroll, carbonized nearly two thousand years ago when Mount Vesuvius buried the ancient Roman city ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July. A charred scroll recovered from a Roman villa buried under ash during the ...

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour ...

Google has released a new Chrome extension that makes it easier for people to link to specific pieces of text within a page. With the launch of Chrome 80 back in February, Google’s browser began ...