I wish people would stop with the sensationalism. Of the 300,000 scrolls that were actually located in in Herculaneum, only 290,000 of them were actually government scrolls. That means that only a fraction of the total number of scrolls were associated with the government.
Moreover, it's totally irresponsible to associate Persian scrolls recovered from the recently discovered royal tombs in Persia from the same time period that talk about "what a treasure Hilarius's bathroom is for advancing the Persian empire. Make sure you leave the gold payment next to the toilet baisin." with the fact that the scrolls were found in what might to first glance appear to be Hilarius and Willumus's bathing chamber. Oddly, the scrolls were moderately discolored as if someone had tried to apply urea to them as an ancient form of bleach....
(On an unrelated note, the female body found underneath Willumus's separate bed chamber clearly has nothing to do with anything, especially not with claims that Jeff's Epsteinius "tamen non pendet ipse" that the unnamed female who probably came from a chariot park in Moesia may or may not have written on the walls of her very comfortable secure room with no doors).
LTIC (laughed til I choked)