A carbonized papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, preserved by the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was read using advanced imaging and microscopy techniques. The decoded text describes Plato’s grave at ...

The Herculaneum Police Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a 4-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother Tuesday.

Step inside the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, one of Italy’s largest and most historic libraries, to explore the extraordinary Herculaneum Papyri. Carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, ...

At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal. After surviving the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the nearly 2,000-year-old documents would crumble if anyone ...

On March 8, on the occasion of International Women's Day, the Herculaneum Archaeological Park joins the initiative promoted ...

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – An Overland, Missouri, man is charged with stealing a muscle car worth many tens of thousands of dollars from a dealership in Herculaneum. According to a probable cause ...

Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...

It’s a peculiar historical quirk that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum also created one of the most detailed portraits of the ancient world ...

History lovers who missed the opportunity to visit the British Museum’s blockbuster 2013 exhibition, “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum,” in person are in luck. Beginning today, the London ...