Archaeologists Discover an Old Legible Manuscript in a Tomb, Contained Writings to Understand Greek Religion An ancient Greek ...
Like other books of the time they were probably papyrus rolls or scrolls. Papyrus was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, a long stemmed reed terminating in a large umbrella, which grew in ...
The Herculaneum scrolls were part of a cache of papyrus rolls buried and carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which wiped out the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 CE.