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 ...

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

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

According to scholars, the Herculaneum Scrolls have remained one of the ancient world's many tantalizing mysteries for nearly ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis ... and pumice fell for several hours. While the eruption lasted for around 24 hours, the first pyroclastic ...

while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

UK scientists made a breakthrough in deciphering ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ...

After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year ...