When Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, the avalanche of volcanic ash that hit Herculaneum caused people's blood to vaporize and their skulls to explode, new analysis of their skeletons has revealed. When the ...

Three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using AI technology to read the scroll Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial Intern in early ...

(CNN) — After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ...

Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...

The skeleton has been unearthed at Herculaneum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The skeleton of a man killed by the deadly ...

The Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE turned the Herculaneum scrolls into a charcoal-like material. University of Kentucky professor Brent Seales issued a challenge with a $1 million reward for anyone ...

It’s a peculiar historical quirk that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum also created one of the most detailed portraits of the ancient world ...

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 ...

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

The infamous A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated the surrounding landscape as well as residents of the Roman metropolises that stood in the volcano’s shadow. After heavy ash caused fatal ...