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 ...

For hundreds of years, hundreds of burnt Herculaneum scrolls had been entombed in ash after the 2,000-year-old eruption of ...

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

Today the villa remains mostly buried ... For most of that time he’s made the Herculaneum papyri his primary quest. “I had to,” he says. “No one else was working on it, and no one really ...

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.

Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash ... the scrolls from the villa—now known as the Villa dei Papyri—constitute the only surviving library from the classical world.

The majority of the scrolls found preserved in the Herculaneum villa were his works ... and their Opposite Virtues are known from the papyri that were physically unrolled — best known are ...

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.

But the speed and fury of the superheated volcanic avalanche wiped out everything in its path, entombing the Villa of the Papyri and everyone still in Herculaneum.