There's been a "very exciting development" in the two-year-old Vesuvius Challenge, an effort to decode ancient scrolls ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

For nearly two millennia, PHerc. 172 — a scroll turned to charcoal in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD — was supposed ...

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

Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls once buried by ...

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

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, burnt ...

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared. But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight ...

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