Three researchers this week won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One expert said the ...

Villa was destroyed by volcanic eruption of AD 79 about 65 years after he died READ MORE: Pompeii's secrets are still being unearthed after 2,000 years Pompeii was famously buried by the eruption ...

Artificial intelligence has helped recover the contents of an extensively damaged ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. On Monday, three researchers won the $700,000 grand ...

"Excavations around Mount Vesuvius have been ongoing since the 18th century. It was known that beneath the ash and debris from the biggest eruption in A.D. 79, various Roman artifacts lay buried ...

but were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Attempts to unroll the scrolls have damaged or destroyed them, turning the precious coal-like relics to ...

The narrative was found in a papyrus scroll that had been almost completely destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. In the text, it tells the story of the philosopher, a disciple of ...

Researchers have unearthed evidence that the inhabitants of Herculaneum were subjected to the full force of ‘pyroclastic currents’—a lethal mixture of gas and volcanic particles that descended upon ...

Specific findings at the site, buried by multiple eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, suggest it might have been the home of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (Octavian), the founding emperor of the Roman ...

Researchers say a villa buried by the eruption in A.D. 79 corresponds with records of the Roman emperor's death in A.D. 14. The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the ...

The earlier villa, which excavations suggest was inhabited before the first century A.D., seems to have been destroyed in the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and the later villa ...