Secrets of the Villa of the Papyri

I’m so excited for the archaeologists to find more and publish them. It makes me cry that many were thrown away as useless lumps of charcoal in the beginning. At least now modern archaeologists understand that with future technologies, we might be able to understand some artifacts like these better. Since then, archaeology has become a science, rather than a hunt for treasure and so many technologies have been developed, like Carbon-14 dating and dendochronology, that early excavators couldn’t have dreamed of. Save everything found at ancient sites!

Plot twist: The treasure still hidden is actually the lost true autobiography of Emperor Claudius and the biography of Caligula written by Agrippina the Younger

This Vesuvius eruption has interested me since I first visited Pompeii as 9 year old. I'm impressed by the amount of details and stories you've been able to dig up. A toldinstone video a day keeps the boredom away

The leaping piglet made me smile.

People have been saying for years that we have found most of what is to be found of ancient writing. And then a mummy or something turns up with parts of a lost book in it's wrappings. Thankfully, it never ends.

I must source some expensive papyrus or vellum, paint Rick Astley and ink the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up in calligraphy over 20 different scrolls, roll it all up and bury them somewhere near Mt Rainier; then in the future an archaeologist spends 40 years of his career unraveling the scrolls to find he has been Rick rolled.

I've seen those Bronze statues in the museum of Naples. They are absolutely amazing. Incredible to think they were made 2000 years ago..

Please do another video with more details of the work of Seales and others to virtually unwrap the scrolls. There has been little or no news since 2019 and I am wondering what is causing this silence. Another issue on which I am sure many would be interested in further information is the results of the latest excavations at the Villa: why are they not trying to dig new tunnels to locate the remaining library? The longer it stays there, the greater the danger that they will be destroyed by natural events. After all, we have the current collection of scrolls dating back to the mid-18th century. Since 1750, there will have been further erosion and water seepage through the ground. It would be tragic to lose this potential treasure trove through inaction...

Hopefully they contain Claudius's Etruscan dictionary. We can only hope.

FIXED: I earlier commented on closed captions turning very dim here, and was able to correct the issue. For whatever reason Youtube introduced font opacity setting of 50%, which can be raised at the bottom of a settings option menu.

i just got my copy of your book a couple days ago!!! instantly became one of my favorites, i couldnt stop telling people about it. love the channel and content : )

One of the few times I've been this early to a video! Hope you are doing well toldinstone! This is my favorite YouTube channel for the past few months

thank you for sparking my interest in ancient Rome!

Another excellent video! Thank you so much. And have a great weekend 😀

An amazing story, and one well told. thank you

Great work! I hope they find more in the future!

I cannot thank you enough for the content you provide us with! I’ve recently bought your book, and I’m really looking forward to reading it. Cheers!

Thank you. I was sad the video came to an end!

The Getty villa isn't by any means a faithful reproduction of the Villa of the Papyri. For one thing, it's considerably smaller than the actual villa was, but it does give one a sense of what the real villa looked like.

I love your videos. So well researched and with a unique style. Please give us more especially on Pompeii and Herculaneum. The ancient site of Thera would be cool too.