When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the summer of 79 A.D, a pyroclastic flow, a superheated concoction of gas, ash, and volcanic rock, roared down the mountain’s slopes, obliterating everything in its path ...

“Pyroclastic flows vary in temperature. You can have cold flows and you can have supercharged, exceptionally hot flows. … If it’s cold, you’d suffocate because it’s very fluid — the ash gets in your ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Veni, Vidi, Hercvlanevm - Virtual Reality Experience" is the name of the new experimental project at the Herculaneum ...

It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years, last glimpsed when the Roman Empire ruled over Europe. Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls – the ancient ...

Eight distinguished British and American classicists are calling for the immediate resumption of excavation at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in Southern Italy. In a letter published in The ...

The Herculaneum scrolls were so badly damaged in the A.D 79 eruption of Vesuvius that scholars feared the ancient library was lost forever. That just changed—with help from technology and a $1 million ...

Fish, grains, meat, and vegetables, but also figs, hazelnuts, bread, and other healthy foods. Through the analysis of some skeletons from the Herculaneum Archaeological Park some time ago, it ...

Few objects pique the curiosity of academics quite like the Herculaneum scrolls – the ancient documents buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. These priceless rolled-up documents carry ...

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 ...