Catch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/twSmKFYygBE When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD it destroyed not just Pompeii but the neighbouring town of Herculaneum, and buried inside that town was a library of ancient scrolls that survived, baked solid and impossible to open without destroying them, for nearly two thousand years, until a team at the University of Kentucky used AI-assisted laser scanning to digitally unfold and read them for the first time.