Researchers in Pompeii believe they may have found the first physical evidence of an ancient Greek 'machine gun' known as ...

A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered ... The scan from the procedure was then used to create a three-dimensional reconstruction, which was analyzed by AI. This scroll was trickier ...

Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a sprawling library ...

Researchers have virtually unfurled a Herculaneum scroll which was rescued from Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii’s ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Herculaneum is Being Freed from her Mantle of Mud ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 138 No. 4 (April 1928), p. 326 doi:10.1038 ...

Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News/Corbis) Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount ...

As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were wiped out ...

The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius ...