BBC News on Herculaneum

BBC News just published an interesting story on Herculaneum and on the scrolls from Villa dei Papiri to be more exact.

"The British Museum's 2013 show of artefacts from the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried in ash during an explosive eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was a sell-out. But could even greater treasures - including lost works of classical literature - still lie underground?

For centuries scholars have been hunting for the lost works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. In the Renaissance, books were found in monastic libraries. In the late 19th Century papyrus scrolls were found in the sands of Egypt. But only in Herculaneum in southern Italy has an entire library from the ancient Mediterranean been discovered in situ."...

Read more here: "Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum," by Robin Banerji
BBC News Magazine