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Papyrus Scroll, Naples Museum
A mostly-incinerated papyrus scroll, one of
about 1,800 found in a very large, luxurious villa in Herculaneum
that was therefore named the Villa of the Papyri. A technique was developed in
the 1990's using multi-wavelength imaging, which allows many of the scrolls
to be read. A large part of the villa still remains to be excavated, but
the work is tied up in Italian governmental red tape. Ironically, being
burned and buried has probably allowed more of the scrolls' content to be
recovered than would have been possible had they been exposed to the sea air
for any great length of time.
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