While digging a well in 1750, a group of workers accidentally discovered an ancient Roman villa containing over a thousand ancient papyrus scrolls. After two thousand years, will we finally be able to read them? Endless Thread presents an episode from the podcast Outside/In.

Endless Thread presents an episode from New Hampshire Public Radio’s Outside/In:

While digging a well in 1750, a group of workers accidentally discovered an ancient Roman villa containing over a thousand papyrus scrolls. This was a stunning discovery: the only library from antiquity ever found in situ. But the scrolls were blackened and fragile, turned almost to ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.