After two students correctly identified the ancient Greek word for "purple" in a papyrus scroll charred by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, they teamed up with a third student to identify about 5% ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

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