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Researchers created burned papyrus scrolls using lead-containing ink and demonstrated that neutron and X-ray tomography can detect the ink in rolled scrolls, enabling virtual unrolling to read the inscriptions without physically unwrapping them—potentially unlocking thousands of ancient texts from Herculaneum.
Scientists in the Vesuvius Challenge have virtually unwrapped and deciphered PHerc.1667, a 22‑column Greek papyrus from Herculaneum's burnt library, revealing a Stoic ethics treatise. Using X-ray micro-CT scanning, 3D modeling, and semi-automated ink detection, a global team led by Brent Seales at EduceLab publicly documented the full read, marking the first complete scroll solved and highlighting the potential to recover more texts from the Villa of the Papyri.
Archaeologists in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad attached to its abdomen—the first known instance of a literary text in this funerary context; the papyrus is fragmentary and its purpose remains unclear, and researchers have not yet used high-tech imaging to read it.
Archaeologists uncovered a papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad tucked inside a mummy in Egypt, a historic find linking ancient Greek literature to Egyptian burial contexts.
Ryan Gosling revisits his popular 2017 Saturday Night Live skit "Papyrus" in a sequel released after his third hosting stint. The skit humorously portrays his character's obsession with the font used in the Avatar logo, with the impact being so significant that even James Cameron joked about changing the font for the sequel.