Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...

The exceptional discoveries include potential evidence of humans and animals fleeing a Mount Vesuvius explosion over a thousand years before the one that buried the famous Roman city. Mount ...

Vesuvius erupted — and they’re thrilled by what they see. “I stand amazed at the sheer volume of text that this scroll promises to produce,” University of Kentucky computer science ...

Archaeologists have discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before 79 C.E.—foreshadowing the devastation that would later ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the ...

Our conversation was primarily about the Vesuvius Challenge, so I didn’t ask, say, what methods he would use to dismantle the federal government should he be called upon to do so in the future.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...