Thanks, I'll check it out (I think I've seen it). In one of the buried towns, in a gymnasium, the balls were still piled up for some game that was pupular in the Roman Empire; possibly the players were getting ready to play, and had to run for it. The House of the Vettei, which is a popular one to visit I guess, was undergoing repairs and renovations, probably onlgoing for years, when it was buried. The owners of the house were freedmen, and their neighbors were bankers (there was only private lending in Roman times) whose records included debts owed or formerly owed by the freedmen. In Herculaneum the pyroclastic flow covered the town in minutes, and due to the lack of oxygen the organic materials were disproportionately preserved compared with Pompeii. In H the famous scroll library was found -- all packed in boxes and ready to flee with -- and doors were carbonized, and still swing on their hinges.
I still wonder if any “new” ancient writings—lost save for mentions by other writers (as with the works of the philosopher Chryssipus), or even previously unknown authors—may yet come out of that library.