The walls of a Roman villa that sank beneath the waters of Lake Fusaro near Naples hundreds of years ago recently reemerged ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

An ancient Roman villa has resurfaced from Italy’s Lake Fusaro due to shifting land, revealing walls and rooms submerged for ...

The papyrus was effectively turned to carbon lumps when the Herculaneum villa where the scrolls were kept was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. 'A human hand wrote this text ...

based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from art experts followed, but no matter—the Getty grew into a beloved local attraction.

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79, officials ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows a papyrus scroll as one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...

The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential ... recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll.” The scroll was scanned by Diamond Light ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii, was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius ...