After Two Millennium Researchers Finally Digitally Unwrap Burnt Scroll From Mount Vesuvius Researchers recently made a ...

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 ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

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

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

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

Scientists use artificial intelligence and human expertise to decipher ancient scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of ...

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

Vesuvius is a 4,203-foot-tall (1,281 meters) stratovolcano located next to the city of Naples along the western ... This is the remnant of Mount Somma — an ancient volcano that once stood ...