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Can you decipher these scrolls? Scientists offer a £400,000 prize

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Scientists at the University of Oxford have successfully used x-ray scanning to reveal portions of text on one of the scrolls.

They say the freshly-revealed text is Greek and they've interpreted a few fragments of words, but they’re still yet to decipher full sentences.

In all, around 1,800 papyrus scrolls that were turned to carbon in the eruption almost 2,000 years ago were housed in a large villa in the Italian town of Herculaneum .

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