Reclaimed From Mount Vesuvius; Villa of the Papyri Discovered at Herculaneum From: The Washington Post | Date: February 18, 1987| Author: | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Only last summer, Italian archeologist Baldessare Conticello outlined to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington his plans for finding one of the lost gems of Roman history: the fabled Villa of the Papyri, buried in A.D. 79 in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that covered Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Last week he found it, but in an unlikely place: at the bottom of an abandoned well filled with dead carnations from commercial greenhouses that today cover much of the Herculaneum site.

"For me it is like discovering El Dorado," the 55-year-old scholar says, his dark eyes twinkling. "But El ...

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