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

The dramatic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, known for destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has long been considered a catastrophe with no survivors. However, recent research has ...

When 18th-century archaeologists stumbled on the object in their excavation tunnels under the municipality of Portici (later identified as the ancient town of Herculaneum) they initially thought ...

Reconstruction of the lion-head discs as ... arc of movement than the standard mouth-ring type known from Pompeii, Herculaneum, the ships of Caligula at Lake Nemi, and closer Levantine parallels ...

Image:Damage near the Herculaneum Gate at Pompeii ... a Greek engineer who worked in Rhodes during the 3rd century BCE. A modern reconstruction of the repeating “polybolos” catapult of Dionysius of ...

Ancient Greek polybolos machine gun is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading ...

And today, they will be the ambassadors of a millennia-old story, the voices of a memory that Herculaneum wants to transform into a new identity. A way to use culture as a driver of social and ...

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 ...

A June PC update will add Path Tracing with DLSS 4 AI-enhanced Ray Reconstruction, significantly enhancing visual fidelity on GeForce RTX Series GPUs for realistic lighting and reflections.