An ancient papyrus scroll left "unreadable" after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is finally revealing ...

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

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.

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 ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

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. According to many ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared. But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight ...

The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s when volcanologists identified pumice deposits underneath the A.D. 79 residues. But in recent years Mastrolorenzo ...

They hail from an ancient library in the Roman city of Herculaneum and, as a result of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79 CE, were fossilized into carbon and are incredibly fragile, per the competition ...

THE eruption of Vesuvius has quieted down since last week, though scoriæ and ash continue to be ejected and there still seems to be a slow flow of lava, but in comparison with the activity of the ...