In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

THE activity of Vesuvius, incessant for some time past, has culminated in an eruption which, making every allowance for newspaper exaggeration, stands in the foremost rank of historic eruptions ...

The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds a number of the scrolls, which have been left untouched for decadesCredit: Vesuvius Challenge Therefore, researchers have used a cutting-edge ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

The Papyri of Herculaneum are a collection of ancient writings that were preserved under ash and mud in the Roman city of Herculaneum during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The scrolls ...

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.

Even on May 1st, the Vesuvius Crater recorded a very positive attendance figure at the Crater area. Thousands of visitors, from all over Italy and abroad, chose to spend Labor Day on the volcano ...