A newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, revealed through Pulsed Thermography, exposes fresh details about the Greek origins of ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the summer of 79 A.D, a pyroclastic flow, a superheated concoction of gas, ash, and volcanic rock, roared down the mountain’s slopes, obliterating everything in its path ...

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Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...

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