In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is largely considered to be one of the worst in history – incinerating ...

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

The Catastrophe of 79 AD: How Pompeii and Herculaneum were lost Pompeii was a prosperous Roman city located near modern Naples, Italy. It was obliterated when Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24 ...

To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...

THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is largely considered to be one of the worst in history - incinerating or suffocating thousands of people living at the base of it.

A charred scroll recovered from a Roman villa buried under ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was identified as a work by the ancient Greek philosopher Philodemus. Researchers ...

It is thought to be the only giraffe bone ever recorded from an archaeological excavation in Roman Italy, according to ... a town to the west of Mount Vesuvius, two bizarre pieces of dark-coloured ...

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 ...