A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

Towering above the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius looks peaceful—but not in tilt-shift! This ambient video reimagines the volcano, its crater, and the landscape below in a surreal, toy-like scale. No ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

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 ...

Columns lay down next to an empty display case as the St. Louis Science Center prepares for an exhibit on daily lives in ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.

When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared. But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight ...

Barricaded at home. First, they tried to save themselves from the fury of Mount Vesuvius by placing a bed across the door to block it. Then they tried to endure and survive by moving from room to ...

We will never send spam or annoying emails. Unsubscribe anytime. The busy port city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., but its destruction also caused its unmatched ...

There were wine bars and restaurants, and vineyards as well. Now grapegrowing and winemaking will return to the city in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius, thanks to a partnership between the Pompeii ...