Researchers have virtually unfurled a Herculaneum scroll which was rescued from Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient ...

A charred scroll unearthed at Herculaneum has been revealed to contain a work by the Greek philosopher Philodemus.

This article was originally published with the title “ Herculaneum is Being Freed from her Mantle of Mud ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 138 No. 4 (April 1928), p. 326 doi:10.1038 ...

In Herculaneum, a town to the west of Mount Vesuvius, two bizarre pieces of dark-coloured glass were found inside the skulls of two individuals. The first piece of glass suspected to be of ...

For hundreds of years, hundreds of burnt Herculaneum scrolls had been entombed in ash after the 2,000-year-old eruption of ...

Researchers discovered the title and author of the Herculaneum papyrus after scanning it with X-rays that digitally unwrapped the sheets, revealing details for the first time using this method.