The Carbonised Scroll That Read Itself

The Carbonised Scroll That Read Itself

The date on it is older than the library it was buried with. On 25 June 2026, in a lecture room at the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli Vittorio Emanuele III with Mount Vesuvius still rising in the distance, the Vesuvius Challenge presented the first Herculaneum papyrus...
Bronze Age bling fell out of the sky

Bronze Age bling fell out of the sky

If you were a Mycenaean nobleman around 1500 BC and you wanted the most expensive ring on the Aegean, you would not have asked for gold. You would have asked for what was, materially, rarer: a ring whose iron had been beaten out of a meteorite. A team led by Eleni...