When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ... but for comment on the state of the world. The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are ...

BC was a completely different time in human history. In the Third Servile War, Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator … Continue reading "15+ Facts About Spartacus That Even History Buffs Might Not Know" ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

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

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

Researchers have been able to generate an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in ash with the ancient city of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that also destroyed ...

172, is one piece to a larger puzzle — for years, researchers have pursued restoration of the Herculaneum papyri, a series of over 1,800 scrolls burned and carbonized during the eruption of Mount ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.