Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...

Vesuvius erupted — and they’re thrilled by what they see. “I stand amazed at the sheer volume of text that this scroll promises to produce,” University of Kentucky computer science ...

The exceptional discoveries include potential evidence of humans and animals fleeing a Mount Vesuvius explosion over a thousand years before the one that buried the famous Roman city. Mount ...