Pope Leo XIV spent several hours May 29 visiting the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology project set up at the papal villa and farm in ...

In the shadow of Vesuvius, archaeologists discovered a pocket-sized bronze sundial in the shape of a ham in the summer of ...

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

Sean Connery's former villa in the South of France has hit the market for $26.4 million, offering sweeping views of the Mediterranean Sea and the city of Nice.

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ancient text that lay sealed inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years.

Known by scholars as PHerc. 172, the scroll originates from the grand Villa of the Papyri, which is thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. This building was said to have ...

PHerc.172 is one of roughly 800 scrolls unearthed in the Villa of the Papyri, a luxurious estate believed to have belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

The villa was buried under tons of ash and pumice ... Excavations in the 18th century recovered many of the ancient papyri, most of which are held at the National Library of Naples.

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...