Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News/Corbis) Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount ...

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which were carbonized when the villa ...

Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a massive collection of scrolls sat in what is known today as the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. It would have been a must-see destination in ancient ...

Areas of expertise My field of study is early Greek literature. I have become involved in the campaign to complete the excavation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. I have founded the Bristol ...

Herculaneum was subsequently engulfed and buried by a pyroclastic flow that burned everything in its path, including the scrolls in the library of what today is known as the Villa of the Papyri.

Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, donated three million dollars to support projects aimed at deciphering the ancient Herculaneum papyri, which have remained a ...

The Herculaneum Papyri are a collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Roman city of Herculaneum, Italy, which was both destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.