A model carbonized papyrus scroll opens a novel path to identifying readable scrolls of the Herculaneum Library (IMAGE)

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A model carbonized papyrus scroll opens a novel path to identifying readable scrolls of the Herculaneum Library

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a) One of several papyrus scrolls before carbonization and (b) after carbonization. Carbonized scroll produced with tight packing of layers and waviness that will challenge unrolling algorithms.

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Seiler et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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