I am not spoiling Robert Harris' Pompeii nor that Paul Anderson movie if I mention that the volcano blows up and kills everybody. That condition may be... reversible.
Science fiction authors have been proposing new life to dead brains for awhile now. That classicists would be first to defy nature like this dates at least to Asimov's "happy goldfish bowl" story. (By the way this one is also looking more likely, these days.)
Before we get all excited about casting a Stone to Data spell over this fossil, keep in mind we also have those carbonised scrolls from Herculaneum, likewise going unread at present. Various methods are being rolled out to read those. Reading those scrolls is a prerequisite to going the full Futurama on a brain fossil.
Still: there's more than enough here for the next Michael Crichton, so have at it.
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