Where To Stream Secrets of the Dead Season 22 Episode 8
The Herculaneum Scrolls
- Aired October 16, 2024
- 60 Min
- Rated 8.4
- Number 34 Of 85 Rated Episodes
Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius's eruption in 79 AD transformed the papyri, fusing together the layers of the scrolls and making them impossible to read. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say?