Virtual reconstruction of the Villa of the papyri in Herculaneum; Italy. In the Ancient city of Herculaneum; the long-buried Villa of the Papyri which belonged to the father-in-law of Julius Cesar; one of Italy's richest Roman Villa famed for its library of ancient scrolls; emerged almost 2000 years after it was buried under 100 feet of volcanic mud by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.The splendor of the villa has spawned imitators. In the 1970s; Paul Getty had the villa recreated in Malibu; California. 2003