Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

Archaeologists have discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before 79 C.E.—foreshadowing the devastation that would later ...

Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, ...

But a recent examination of brain matter from one of these Vesuvius victims has uncovered something even more disturbing. According to Live Science, researchers found that the hot gas and rock that ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

Herculaneum, a town on the Bay of Naples that was buried beneath volcanic ash when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, has only been partially excavated. Some buildings stand open to the sky; others, such as ...

Ancient footprints made by people and animals fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been discovered near Pompeii. But these footprints are thousands of years older than the famous eruption ...

Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...

Credit: Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Salerno and Avellino Archaeologists have uncovered ancient footprints in Italy’s Salerno province, revealing the desperate escape of ...