Lost library emerges after 2,000 years

Charley Hivey was first in with This CNN Article on the long-buried Villa of the Papyri, one of Italy’s richest Roman villas, which opened to the public this weekend almost 2,000 years after it was submerged in volcanic mud.


Hundreds of scrolls have been carefully opened and many others could be read in the near future thanks to digital and scanning technology.


The scrolls, which looked like sticks of charcoal when they were first discovered, have mostly turned out to be works of Greek epicurean philosophy from the first century BC.

March 3, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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