Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Ahead of the film's release on Wednesday (2 July), Bailey revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that he had an ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

While they cannot be opened due to the carbonization and other damage, their secrets are not entirely lost thanks to modern ...

Such virtual unrolling is a two-stage process pioneered by W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky.

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, were carbonised by scorching gases that engulfed the town ...

— Researchers deciphered the author and title of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll burned by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD. Like what you’ve read? Oh, but there’s more.

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls. The title has been unread for nearly 2,000 years, ever ...

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...