The scroll designated PHerc. 172 is one of nearly 2,000 carbonized scrolls and charred papyrus fragments found in the lost Roman town of Herculaneum in 1750, part of the Herculaneum papyri ...

Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum.

The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, Italy in March, 2003. Photo by Eric Vandeville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The sprawling waterfront estate ...

The Herculaneum papyri are a collection of scrolls whose status among classicists approaches the mythical. The scrolls were buried inside an Italian countryside villa by the same volcanic eruption ...

J. Paul Getty, the American billionaire, “a symbol of oil, wealth and power,” discovered Herculaneum and the Villa of the Papyri early in the twentieth century. He started buying Greek and ...

The Herculaneum scrolls are inked documents that were in Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79, burying the town and its more famous neighbor, Pompeii, in volcanic ash.

In this double lecture, sponsored by the Custard Institute for Spanish Art & Culture, we delve into the discoveries at the ancient site of Herculaneum. Kenneth Lapatin, Associate Curator of ...