Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

The carbonized lumps turned out to be papyrus scrolls belonging to a great library full of Roman writing that had been thought lost. For this reason, the building is now known as the Villa dei Papiri.

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival ...

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...

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ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after ...

In 1750, people who were digging in the vicinity of Herculaneum achieved a breakthrough. As they cut through the layers of volcanic sediments and sandstone, they stumbled upon the remains of a Roman ...

While the workers dug tunnels through the hard volcanic soil around the city of Herculaneum during the mid-eighteenth century, they were certainly not looking for literature. The layers they were ...