The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

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 ...

Lyndon Learners say ciao to Italy on enriching visit. A group of 43 learners in Years 8 to 11 from Lyndon School, part of the ...

Historic Italian town mulls ‘Venice-style’ entry fee to curb overcrowding, X-ray reveals Greek author of ancient scroll ...

Researchers Use AI to Digitally Unwrap a ‘Unreadable’ 2,000-Year-Old Vesuvius Scroll for the First Time In a sun-drenched ...

It is these World War Two veterans and their incredible stories that we think about on VE Day. In the hospital courtyard, a ...

Roman Signer takes his furniture on wild journeys. He plays with fire, simulates landslides and sends tables soaring into the ...

New research shows that elevation changes and earthquakes in Italy's Campi Flegrei volcanic area are caused by rising pressure in a geothermal reservoir -- not magma or its gases, as commonly thought.

Mademoiselle Nobs was actually the Meddle song Seamus, which originally featured Humble Pie guitarist/vocalist Steve Marriott’s pet collie howling along to a slow blues, but now with an Afghan hound ...

Through subsurface imaging and lab experiments, Stanford scientists have shown how pressure buildup from water and vapor in ...