Author: Julianna Scherer

As I’m sure you have learned, almost 2,000 years ago the infamous Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. What you likely haven’t learned is that, despite this destruction, a library of unlikely scrolls managed to survive. Over 1,500 years after the eruption, these scrolls, known as the Herculaneum Papyri, were…