Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News ... Carbonized papyrus scroll (top); Some of the Greek letters identified by X-ray phase-contrast tomography (bottom)(Courtesy Vito ...

Herculaneum, an ancient Italian city at ... One such site is the Villa of the Papyri, a luxurious seaside home that belonged to a wealthy Roman. Upon investigation of the villa, lumps of charcoal ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a massive collection of scrolls sat in what is known today as the Villa of the Papyri ...

His works make up the majority of the library in the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum were the famous scrolls were buried, so it is unsurprising that he was the author of this work too, experts say.

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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.

He got to the top in 58 BCE and became consul in ... politics to retirement at his magnificent villa in Herculaneum. The Villa of the Papyri would have given Piso and his friend Philodemus the ...

Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 ...