A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

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

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

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2 ...

Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...

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

The Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, Dr. Michael Poland, says he's not worried about an imminent ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the most significant ...