# ScienceBlog 2026: Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open

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# Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open

ScienceBlog, 2026. _scienceblog.com_.

Feature of 28 August 2026 summarising the PHerc. 1667 reading and noting that an attribution to Chrysippus is a working hypothesis.

**Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Used only for the press framing of the attribution question.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[The treatise is by Chrysippus.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/answers/ANS0D3683264EC6/the-treatise-is-by-chrysippus)

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[The Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri)

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## Cite it

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ScienceBlog (2026). Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open. scienceblog.com. https://scienceblog.com/n-eighteenth-century-scholars-destroyed-hundreds-of-herculaneum-scrolls-trying-to-prise-them-open-because-the-eruption-that-buried-the-library-had-carbonised-the-papyrus-shut-and-in-june/
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