A surveillance camera recorded the moment when the Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupted again at the weekend, spewing a cloud ...

Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

Two earthquakes on Vesuvius are causing concern among residents and experts.

UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...

During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

This is not the first of its kind. The Vesuvius Challenge is a global initiative that was launched in 2023 to discover the contents of the Herculaneum Scrolls without physical intervention to the ...

Despite its rather unfavourable reputation, Lonley Planet has named Italy's third-largest city as one of the best places in ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...