In a First, Scientists Fully Read a Charred Herculaneum Scroll—Without Ever Opening It

Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a carbonized form so fragile that scholars ...
Scientific American

Ancient Roman scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius digitally unrolled in full for first time

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...
The White House

SECURING THE NATION AGAINST ADVANCED CRYPTOGRAPHIC ATTACKS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background ...