UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Once Vesuvius erupted, there was no escape for the residents of Pompeii, whose last hours on earth were nothing short of ...

Chunks of pumice – a porous volcanic rock formed when a gas-rich froth of glassy lava solidifies rapidly – measuring up to nine feet thick rained down on residents and buildings in Pompeii, ...

As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes ... among the ruins of the ancient town, which was destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius volcano and buried under up to six meters of ash and volcanic ...

two villas and the bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The bodies belonged to a ...

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

The iconic Greek holiday island is literally shaking, and residents are escaping while they can.

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

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

Archeological Park of Pompeii Press Office Via AP, HO Recently, archeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry shop, two villas and the bones of three people who died during the ...