THE LIBRARY OF THE VILLA DEI PAPIRI AT HERCULANEUM

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79 also buried Herculaneum.              The richest finds were from a villa that came to be called the Villa dei Papiri, because it also yielded upward of a thousand papyrus rolls. The tantalizing possibility of the rediscovery of lost masterpieces by classical writers.