Getty Villa displays "The Kingdom of Pylos" exhibition with artifacts from Ancient Greece including the "Griffin Warrior" ...

Pope Leo XIV spent several hours May 29 visiting the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology project set up at the papal villa and farm in ...

In the shadow of Vesuvius, archaeologists discovered a pocket-sized bronze sundial in the shape of a ham in the summer of ...

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 ...

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

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.

The X-ray images revealed the text to be part of On Vices, a multi-volume philosophical treatise written by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus ... villa’s ruins are too fragile to be physically unrolled ...

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 ...

Philodemus was said to be integral to spreading ... 172, the scroll originates from the grand Villa of the Papyri, which is thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

Philodemus. The charred scroll was recovered from a Roman villa, believed to have been the home of Julius Caesar's father-in-law. The scroll, along with the villa, was buried during the eruption ...

He is believed to be the primary author of most scrolls found in the villa, offering a rare glimpse ... The scroll is part of Philodemus’ broader ethical work, titled ‘Περὶ κακιῶν ...