Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, charred scrolls from the 1st Century C.E. using X-rays and artificial intelligence. Sponsor ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival philosophy’s private doubts alongside the public ideal of unshakable virtue.