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Villa of the Papyri
The Villa of the Papyri is an ancient Roman villa, named after its unique library of papyri (or scrolls), discovered in 1750. It contained over 1,800 papyrus scrolls, now carbonised by the heat of the eruption, the “Herculaneum papyri.”
Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum was destroyed and buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Archaeological discoveries include the Villa of the Papyri. You can learn more about it on Wikipedia. Work to unravel the secrets of the papyri are still underway.
