The explosion of Vesuvius in 79 AD carbonized a library of papyrus scrolls, namely Herculaneum papyri, the contents of which are thus still largely unknown. Here, Mocella et al.show the capability of X-ray phase-contrast tomography to read letters in these scrolls without the need to unroll them first.
- Vito Mocella
- Emmanuel Brun
- Daniel Delattre
