Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, spewing ash and small volcanic pellets known as lapilli over the city of Pompeii. Nearly ...

St. Louis Science Center Special Exhibitions Manager Kaylia Eskew shared what to expect artifacts and experience to expect ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

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RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago. The tightly bound scroll cannot be opened since its delicate ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

Archaeologists unearthed skeletal remains of four people in a well-appointed Roman home, along with signs of their efforts to outlast the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii Archaeologists have unearthed heartbreaking evidence of a family's last-ditch attempts ...

PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...