Researchers have found a key that may unlock the only library of classical
antiquity to survive along with its documents, raising at least a
possibility of recovering vanished works of ancient Greek and Roman authors
such as the lost books of Livy’s history of Rome.

The library is that of a villa in Herculaneum, a town that was destroyed in
A.D. 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that obliterated nearby Pompeii.
Though Pompeii was engulfed by lava, a mix of superhot gases and ash swept
over Herculaneum, preserving the documents in a grand villa that probably
belonged to the family of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, the
father-in-law of Julius Caesar.

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