Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Despite its rather unfavourable reputation, Lonley Planet has named Italy's third-largest city as one of the best places in ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

Scholars and scientists have worked for more than 250 years on ways to decipher the scrolls, the vast majority of which are held in the National Library of Naples. This undated image made ...

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 ...