For centuries, the destruction of Pompeii has been dated to August 24 in the year 79 CE, a figure drawn almost entirely from ...

Experts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human behavior and theology.

The archaeologists behind the video believe the man covered his head with a bowl to protect himself from volcanic debris.

Researchers have used AI to virtually unwrap and decipher a nearly 2,000-year-old Herculaneum papyrus scroll buried in the AD79 Vesuvius eruption. The technique revealed previously hidden Stoic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casts of victims of Pompeii's tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first ...

Archaeologists at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting ...