Episode
60 Minutes: Mancini’s Brain, Second Act, The Scrolls of Herculaneum
Overview
How IEDs may be physically causing PTSD; then, Daniel Barenboim tries bridging the Middle East conflict with music; and, can technology unravel the secrets sealed by Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago?
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 50
- Episode
- Episode 29
- Air date
- 2018-04-01
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Mancini’s Brain, Second Act, The Scrolls of Herculaneum is Episode 29 in Season 50 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2018-04-01. The runtime is 44 min.
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