The handful of works known so far appear to be Epicurian texts.
Philodemus: The Villa of the Papyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodemus#The_Villa_of_the_Papyri
The Villa of the Papyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri
[snip] Piso’s home had four levels disposed in a series of terraces on the sloping site and was one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and Pompeii... There is still 2,800 [square meters] left to be excavated of this villa suburbana, the most luxurious in the resort of Herculaneum. Beneath the excavated area, new excavations in the 1990s revealed two previously undiscovered floors to the villa [end]
The search for the lost library of Rome
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article505322.ece
[snip] Once the villa had been stripped, 200 years ago, the tunnels were sealed. But last week a group of the world’s leading classical scholars gathered in Oxford to demand that the site be reopened. They believe that there is a better-than-evens chance — “quite likely”, is how Robert Fowler, professor of Greek at Bristol University, puts it — that the villa may have possessed at least one other library still to be uncovered. [end]
AND HERE’S A LAUGH, and maybe a good long cry:
Piso Theory by “Roman Piso”
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_piso07.htm
also of interest:
New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
Stanford University | July 23, 2008 | Adam Gorlick
Posted on 07/24/2008 8:09:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050553/posts
Thanks for the update.
Also, as for: “AND HERE’S A LAUGH, and maybe a good long cry:”
Them people are NVTS....