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Scientists Say Lead in Ink Could Finally Crack Herculaneum’s Burnt Scrolls—So They Baked a Fake One as a Test


The Herculaneum scrolls were discovered in the 1700s. It's taken centuries for researchers to read one of them in its entirety.

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