THE HERCULANEUM PAPYRI

The Herculaneum Papyri

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri found in the archaeological site of Herculaneum in Italy.XVIII They were found in the 10th century in the Villa of the papyri of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Cesoninus (AD 101-43), father-in-law of Julius Caesar . It was located between Naples and Pompeii , at the foot of the Vesuvius volcano. After the er

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