Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...
The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.
Found beneath an older tomb near Tarquinia, the painted chamber depicts several intricate scenes, including a metallurgical ...
Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.
London's first Roman basilica has been finally found - hidden underneath the basement of an unassuming office block near ...
A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...
The collaboration between artificial intelligence and human expertise is striving to unlock the secrets of ancient papyrus scrolls, carbonized by a catastrophic volcanic eruption at Herculaneum almost ...
The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...
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 ...
The scroll is one of hundreds found in a Roman mansion in Herculaneum, a town near Pompeii in Italy that was destroyed in AD79 when Vesuvius erupted. “It’s an incredible moment in history as ...
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 ...
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now decipher thanks to AI and a particle accelerator.