Yellowstone is using a 53,000-pound vibrator truck to create custom-made earthquakes to study the supervolcano the park sits ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

An ancient papyrus scroll left "unreadable" after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is finally revealing ...

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 ...

What's more, each replica is equipped with visual and sound effects, and many of the park's miniature attractions are interactive, so visitors can make Mount Vesuvius erupt or dismantle the Berlin ...

Rain with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C) and a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds from N to NNE at 15 to 16 mph (24.1 to 25.7 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 71% chance of precipitation. Winds from N to ...

Thanks to advanced X-ray technology, a charred scroll from a Roman villa buried by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been identified as a work by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. The ...