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 ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ancient text that lay sealed inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years.

A charred scroll recovered from a Roman villa buried under ... ancient Greek philosopher Philodemus. Researchers discovered the title and author of the Herculaneum papyrus after scanning it ...

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

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 ...

Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ... particularly some written by the philosopher Philodemus. Recently, a team of scientists has pioneered a new, safer method of deciphering the texts.

That changed in 1752, when a magnificent villa was unearthed ... improving their reading of the old papyri. Better scholarship revealed a more readable Philodemus. On the Good King According ...

Preserved under mud and ash in a villa believed to have been once owned ... the scroll as “On Vices” by the Greek philosopher Philodemus, according to the Vesuvius Challenge.