WHOEVER CAN DECIPHER 2,000-YEAR-OLD HERCULANEUM SCROLLS WIL WIN $250,000 PRIZE The scroll pictured above is one of the Herculaneum scrolls that used to be buried under the pyroclastic flow of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.  That was the year that Mount Vesuvius laid waste to the library in Herculaneum that had been owned by Julius Caesar’s father in law.  But the scroll above is one of several that have been recovered.  What do they say?  What enticing histories are written on them tantalizing us to discover?  The answer is just that: tantalizing. Tantalizing and a mystery.  So former Github … Continue reading $250,000 Prize To Decipher These 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scrolls