A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

As red-hot volcanic rocks rained down on the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 CE, the inhabitants of one house made the fatal ...

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains has revealed ...

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

The beach, as per CNN, is located in the Herculaneum archaeological park ... One notable discovery was the "last fugitive" in 2021: a skeleton of a man around 40 years old, found with a bag ...

Pompeii's Lost Twin: Herculaneum: Experts investigate Herculaneum's grisly skeletons and uncover what happened in the deadly final hours after Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

The skeletons' final resting place ... not doomed refugees of the famous A.D. 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. Rather they were Bronze Age inhabitants of one of the dozens of ...