In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

For the brain to be preserved, it needed to cool down quickly before the flow arrived ... Unlike Pompeii, Herculaneum had some time to respond to the eruption. All the other bodies discovered ...

If archaeology is a novel, Enzechetta is the first, involuntary protagonist of the novel of Herculaneum and its ... to the ancient city buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

This unique brain could rewrite the story and prepare us for future volcanic eruptions ... in the city shortly before it was smothered. This would mean the people of Herculaneum were actually ...

Capri began to regain its popularity in the 1750s, when excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman towns buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, made Naples a key stop on the ...

Before I visited Pompeii I felt quite overwhelmed ... The tragedy wrought by the eruption feels even more immediate at Herculaneum – by the Roman shoreline are boat houses full of the skeletons of the ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

represents not only a true miracle saved from the eruption but also a red thread that accompanies us from antiquity to our daily experience today. Everything speaks to us in Herculaneum ...