Can YOU decipher these scrolls? Scientists are offering a 400,000 prize if you can read a manuscript that was charred during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, scientists are offering 400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls. These ancient rolls of papyrus – a material similar to paper – are thought to contain profound philosophical and literary texts from ancient Greek and Roman scholars. The problem is that any attempts to unroll the burnt cylinders will turn them to dust, because they are so fragile. So, scientists have been turning to ingenious methods such as x-ray scanning, ink-detection software and AI to virtually'unroll' them.