Lots of books in the way Keanu Reeves says “lots of guns.”

A group of researchers from Brigham Young University has found an ancient library that supposedly traces back to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Vesuvius. Manuscripts dating back 2,000 years have been discovered, as well as a host of other archeological treasures:

Some classicists believe that the papyruses, extracted in the 18th century from the buried town of Herculaneum in the Bay of Naples, are just the blackened tip of an iceberg of knowledge. The unexcavated parts of the building where these papyruses were found may contain thousands more. It is not entirely fanciful to imagine that they include works of literature and philosophy that have never been seen by modern eyes: lost companions to The Odyssey and The Iliad from the age of Homer, treatises by Plato and dialogs by Aristotle, tragedies by Sophocles, poetry by Sappho. Those shriveled rolls still locked in the rock could one day form the core of a unique library containing the lost roots of Western European thought.

As a budding philosopher, we know for a fact that a good deal of the works of Greek philosophy never survived the Dark Ages. A find like this is simply amazing.