Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

More recently, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupted in 1985, killing around 25,000 people. Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii […] ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2 ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...