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 ...

His works make up the majority of the library in the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum were the famous scrolls were buried, so it is unsurprising that he was the author of this work too, experts say.

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 ...

A charred scroll recovered from a Roman villa ... Herculaneum, along with Pompeii, was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Excavations in the 18th century recovered many of the ancient papyri ...

The scroll was discovered in Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town ... 172 is one of roughly 800 scrolls unearthed in the Villa of the Papyri, a luxurious estate believed to have belonged to Lucius ...

172, was recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, the ancient Roman ... in the 18th century in what is now known as the Villa of the Papyri, comprise one of the only surviving libraries from ...

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

The majority of the scrolls found preserved in the Herculaneum villa were his works ... and their Opposite Virtues are known from the papyri that were physically unrolled — best known are ...

The ancient Roman town of Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Remaining there is a massive library, known as the Villa of the Papyri ...