UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were burned when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

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While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an unreadable state. Scholars and scientists have been working for more than 250 years ...