This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows a papyrus scroll as one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum ...
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.
A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...
Lesser-known Herculaneum, which was devastated by the ... the only surviving library of the ancient world. Its thousands of scrolls were carbonised into hardened lumps by the heat of the volcanic ...
Earlier this month, scientists digitally "unrolled" and began to read one of the Herculaneum scrolls, which were scorched by the eruption. Last month, archeologists at the site unearthed a private ...
Earlier this month, scientists digitally "unrolled" and began to read one of the Herculaneum scrolls, which were scorched by the eruption. Last month, archeologists at the site unearthed a private ...
NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) Read after burning. One of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, has been digitally unrolled using X-ray ...
February's list includes dancing sea turtles, the secret to a perfectly boiled egg, the latest breakthrough in deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls, the discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb ...
The last mortal remains of his fellow residents of Herculaneum were found mostly ... the details of their life 2,000 years ago: papyrus scrolls, bread, olives, bronze pitchers, furniture, fresh ...
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