The first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri from ...

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Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

The famous Herculaneum scroll, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, has been deciphered by artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved by students in the Vesuvius ...

An ancient Roman beach buried nearly 2,000 years ago due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has opened to the public in Italy after the completion of conservation work. Many centuries later, the ...

The Herculaneum victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD were blasted with such extreme heat that their soft tissue disappeared, scientists have discovered. In a paper released May 27, ...

OUR sources of information in regard to the ancient world are fortunately no longer confined to books. The spade of the excavator has done more of late to illustrate the classics, to extend our ...

A red-coated skeleton got buried under the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the city of Herculaneum in 79 AD. More than 300 victims were found piled in boat sheds in excavations in the 1980s and ’90s.

Archaeologists released haunting images Wednesday of the skeletal remains of a man who was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The man, discovered in October and believed ...

Maria Paola Guidobaldi and Domenico Esposito, trans. from the Italian by Ceil Friedman, photography by Luciano Pedicini. Abbeville, $125 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7892-1146-0 This massive, generously ...