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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Herculaneum scrolls are inked documents that were in Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79, burying the town and its more famous neighbor, Pompeii, in volcanic ash.

The Secrets of HERCULANEUM to be yielded at last; The acceptance by the Italian Government of Prof. Waldstein's plan for excavating the buried city promises to restore to the World most glorious ...

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 ...

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.