But only one features actor Tom Hiddleston taking on the role of a “time detective” to bring the people of Pompeii to vivid ...

It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how three settlements faced three distinct fates, reshaping our ...

A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ...

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 ...

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in a new era for the study of the ancient world.

The volcanic eruption that struck the Roman resort city of Pompeii may be the most famous natural disaster in human history. But one critical detail about the catastrophe continues vexing experts: the ...

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

Researchers have been able to read part of an ancient scroll burned by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago for the first time. The Herculaneum scrolls, named after a Roman town carbonized by the ...

Llorenç Alapont, an archaeologist at the University of Valencia, led the recent research on plaster casts of Pompeii victims. University of Valencia When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it famously ...

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 ...

A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence. The ...

Researchers used AI tools to achieve the first complete viewings of closed scrolls burnt by the eruption that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.