Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

We spent almost 2 weeks exploring Italy’s dreamy Amalfi Coast in May 2022. Rather than hiring a car, we planned an action packed but realistic itinerary to see the region’s top highlights by train, ...

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 reams of ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British ...

We’d just spent the morning exploring the quiet and well-preserved Herculaneum ruins before hopping onto a Circumvesuviana train to Sorrento, where we stayed for 2 nights before taking a ferry to ...

A newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, revealed through Pulsed Thermography, exposes fresh details about the Greek origins of ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Researchers have been able to generate an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in ash with the ancient city of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that also destroyed Pompeii—a ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...