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Villa of the Papyri

Luxury villa at Herculaneum buried and carbonised by the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius, preserving the only intact library to survive from the Greco-Roman world - around 1,800 papyrus scrolls now being read via CT-scanning and AI without unrolling them.

Dated events and their evidence

• 40 BCE mainstream
  villa built (approximate) source
• 1752 CE mainstream
  papyri excavated source

Where

40.8067° N, 14.3456° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri

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