Three researchers have been awarded a $700,000 prize for producing the first readable text from the previously unreadable scrolls.
Scientists have discovered the preserved brain cells of a man who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
This dire fate awaited the residents of Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79.
Scrolls from the time of the volcanic disaster that buried Pompeii have been examined by scientists.