First-known example of overhead ring placement suggests handles were designed as lifting grips for Roman-period wooden ...

A survey tracing the city'ss greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures ...

Mount Vesuvius’ eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash.

Isaac is a science writer for Gizmodo covering space, archaeology, and particle and ... and terrify everyone with eardrums. A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. Over a thousand scrolls were found ...

Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a sprawling library ...

Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed where the Aztecs acquired the volcanic glass they used for tools, ornamental pieces or religious objects centuries ago — and their vast trade ...

The condo market in two of Canada’s big cities has taken a major downturn. CBC’s Nisha Patel breaks down three reasons why ...