Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily gifted it to Oxford in the early 19th century.
When Vesuvius erupted, it buried the coastal towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and volcanic debris.
The eruption came as a total surprise to locals, and residents who didntescapemetgrisly ends.
A Herculaneum papyrus fragment at the National Library of Naples.Photo: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
The area became an archaeological mecca when towns were rediscovered some 1,700 years later.
The papyri in the villa of Julius Caesars father-in-law were carbonized by the eruptions pyroclastic outflow.
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