The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

A close look at Pompeii’s stone-paved streets has shown how traffic through the ancient city changed dramatically after it was incorporated into the Roman world. Receive a weekly dose of ...

Its sepulchral basement is filled to bursting with a collection of antiquities befitting a Neoclassical architect whose education culminated in the 18th-century Grand Tour. Plaster friezes and ...

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172, showing the word ‘disgust’, one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when ...

This article is brought to you by National Museum of Australia. Every 15 minutes at the National Museum of Australia’s Pompeii exhibition, lights flicker and there are rumbling sounds. The excitement ...

Over a thousand scrolls were found in the remains of Herculaneum, but the secrets of what was written are only just beginning to be revealed in detail. Judge blocks Trump executive order to end ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now decipher thanks to AI and a particle accelerator.