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(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 ...
The Herculaneum Scrolls was produced with the participation of UK Animation Tax Relief. Funding for Secrets of the Dead is provided by public television viewers.
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're reading it.
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 ...
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.
When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what happened to his brain became a scientific sensation.
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 ...
HERCULANEUM, Mo. — Neighbors are blaming a nearby construction project for damage to their Jefferson County homes. They said blasting on a new Love's Travel Center in Herculaneum is causing ...
The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 people died while waiting for boats to save them from the volcanic eruption in 79 AD. It's now open to the public for the first time.
The archaeological park of Herculaneum in Campania, Italy, has reopened one of its most spectacular ancient dwellings for four months only, as part of ongoing efforts to ramp up visitor numbers ...
Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. Modern tech is revealing lost texts from the town.