Damn, I was hoping this headline meant that the scientific community had finally succeeded in retrieving the info from the charred and burnt scrolls found in Pliny’s library after being buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.
There’s hope that many of the lost books of ancient times are there.
Pliny the Elder was killed by fumes from Vesuvius while helping to rescue people fleeing the eruption but he didn’t have a library there. The library found at Herculaneum may have belonged to Caesar’s last father-in-law. Some of the rolls have been unrolled (mostly writings of the philosopher Philodemus). Advances in technology may permit more of the rolls to be read. For more information see the Wikipedia article “Herculaneum papyri.”