Vesuvius is very capricious, and this eruption may stop suddenly or may decimate ... beings were overwhelmed in the resistless flood. In 1631, the town of Torre del Grecco with four thousand ...

Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

After an enormous sub-plinian eruption in 1631, Vesuvius has adopted a more benign personality. It produced copious streams of lava during frequent eruptions in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

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

Mount Vesuvius, the infamous volcano that looms over the Bay of Naples, is a destination that captivates travelers with its ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

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