Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News ... but its greatest treasure might have been its library—and the nearly 1,800 papyrus scrolls that were discovered there in the ...

Together with Pompeii, Torre Annunziata and Stabiae, the Italian town of Herculaneum was destroyed ... the father-in-law of ...

Named the Herculaneum Scrolls, after the city they were found in, the collection is the only library left from the ancient world. But their secrets remained unknown for the last 272 years.

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

In 1752, an ancient library was discovered at Herculaneum, buried beneath the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Astonishingly, nearly 2000 carbonized papyrus rolls were preserved, though some were so badly ...

The library group said Wednesday that it has begun ... said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date, contained the most recoverable text, with the chemical composition ...

The Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford houses several Herculaneum scrolls, including PHerc. 172, which was gifted by Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily in the early 19th century.

The library of what’s called the Villa of the ... He said it “contains more recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll.” The scroll was scanned by Diamond ...

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 more than 1,800 papyrus ... The scholar made the announcement at the Naples Biblioteca Nazionale (National Library) as he presented the mid-term results of the 'Greek ...