Around the same time, a Dutch tourist used a permanent marker to draw graffiti on a wall in the city of Herculaneum, which was also destroyed by the 79 C.E. eruption. Some perpetrators have ...

Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News/Corbis) Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount ...

The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius ...

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 ...

To visit the incredible sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a tourist is incredible ... glimpses of a long lost world - ghostly seating and walls still decorated with coloured plaster and even ...