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 ...

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

A charred Herculaneum scroll, buried by the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, was identified via X-ray as part of Philodemus’ On Vices ...

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 ...

Mount Vesuvius continues to be one of the chosen destinations for tourists: 2,884 visitors on Easter, 2,807 on Easter Monday. 'This year too, on Easter and Easter Monday, the Crater of Vesuvius ...

Visiting Pompeii is unmissable, but it’s an awe-inspiring experience to go to the top of Mount Vesuvius and see (and smell) the smoke that still rises up from the crater. I chose to take a bus ...

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The accident happened just a week after the cable car, which is popular for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season. It averages around 110,000 visitors each year.