Further exploration at Herculaneum could ‘stagger the imagination’

A group of British, American and French scholars is calling for the immediate resumption of excavations at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The villa, which is near Pompeii, was first explored in the 1750s when archaeologists discovered the only intact library of texts from the Classical era. The papyri found so far are Greek works of philosophy; the hope is that other Greek texts as well as Latin ones by some of the greatest writers