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 ...

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

PHerc.172 is one of roughly 800 scrolls unearthed in the Villa of the Papyri, a luxurious estate believed to have belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

The villa was buried under tons of ash and pumice ... Excavations in the 18th century recovered many of the ancient papyri, most of which are held at the National Library of Naples.

These scrolls, 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 classical world. Due to their fragile ...

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.

Known by scholars as PHerc. 172, the scroll originates from the grand Villa of the Papyri, which is thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. This building was said to have ...

The villa, now known as the Villa dei Papiri ... Papyrologists were improving their reading of the old papyri. Better scholarship revealed a more readable Philodemus. On the Good King According ...

In the eighteenth century, a number of Philodemus’s writings were found among the ruins of Herculaneum’s aptly named Villa of the Papyri. It was apparently owned by Philodemus’s patron ...