There are several villas in Herculaneum where the remains of scrolls have been found, including one said to belong to the family of Julius Caesar. Two scrolls in particular have been in the possession of the French who did the original excavation of that villa in the 19th century. Today however, the scrolls are in England, and a team of experts from the University of Kentucky made the pilgrimage to England to use a diamond light source to read the two scrolls and some extra fragments, and then bring home the data and try and decipher it. Here is the team posing with the Synchotron that does the imaging in England.
Brent Searle from U.K. (i.e. the University of Kentucky is in the center of the picture and heads the team). He’s hoping maybe one of these scrolls has a Christian text on it. If so, it would be the earliest Christian text ever discovered. More likely it will be some Greek or Latin classical text. Here is the remarkable story itself….
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/us/herculaneum-scrolls-scn-trnd/index.html
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