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

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

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

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

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

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

which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge ...