Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper Access ... The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add ...

this replica villa houses a staggering 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, including the famed Victorious Youth statue. The villa narrowly escaped destruction as the Palisades Fire ...

UK scientists made a breakthrough in deciphering ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ...

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 into the size of a candy bar ...

Before Mount Vesuvius demolished the Roman town of Herculaneum in 79 A.D., a massive collection of scrolls sat in what is known today as the Villa of the Papyri. Back in the day, the villa would have ...

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 ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed… ...