Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption ... volcanic fragments and gas was blasted into the air above Mount Vesuvius. Then, from 2pm, pumice, a rock formed when lava solidifies ...

Vesuvius is a 4,203-foot-tall (1,281 meters ... which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killed around 2,000 people, around half of which were perfectly preserved by ...

In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 20 feet of ash, preserving amazing details about daily life in the Roman Empire. Pompeii is one of the most ...

Vesuvius is very capricious ... dreadful demonstration of this natural forge was in the year 79 A. D., when Pompeii and Herculanum were destroyed, and more than a quarter of a million of human ...