The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which were carbonized when the villa ...

Areas of expertise My field of study is early Greek literature. I have become involved in the campaign to complete the excavation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. I have founded the Bristol ...

In detail, the trio targeted the Herculaneum papyri, a set of 800 Greek scrolls that were involved in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, leading the ancient Roman town Pompeii to be buried ...