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 ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

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.

Philodemus wrote the work in the first century ... first discovered in the 18th century in what is now known as the Villa of the Papyri, comprise one of the only surviving libraries from the ...

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.