The infants and children huddled in the stone boathouses. The women pressed in next to them. The men crowded in last. They’d all fled Herculaneum on Aug. 24, 79 A.D., as Mount Vesuvius rained… ...

Herculaneum Uncovered follows geo-archaeologists as they unearth what life was like before the eruption, and how the volcano devastated the town in a very different manner to Pompeii.

Herculaneum lies about 11 miles (20 kilometers) from Pompeii, also famously buried by the eruption, and sits closer to the base of Vesuvius. ... Like the boathouse victims, ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 19 - Two of Herculaneum's most famous and beautiful domus reopened Wednesday after a 25-year restoration. The domus in the Roman town buried by Vesuvius along with Pompeii in 79 ...

Herculaneum scroll reveals its secrets after 2,000 years. Posted: February 6, 2025 | Last updated: February 6, 2025. Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help ...

Historians were struck by the tantalizing possibility that this library might contain missing works of some of history’s greatest writers—works thought to have been lost forever.

Secrets of the Dead: The Herculaneum Scrolls is a production of Impossible Factual and The WNET Group, in association with ZDF Studios, Channel 5, SBS Australia, and France Télévisions.

A tourist from the Netherlands has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the ...