Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...

The U.S. is home to some of the world’s most powerful volcanoes, but which states have the most? From Hawaii’s lava flows to the towering peaks of the Pacific Northwest, these states experience the ...

The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

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 ...

Inevitably, he made sure to describe the world’s volcanoes. Vesuvius, though, was not on his list. Pliny, like the inhabitants of Herculaneum, Pompeii and the various other towns planted on Vesuvius’s ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

This is not the first of its kind. The Vesuvius Challenge is a global initiative that was launched in 2023 to discover the contents of the Herculaneum Scrolls without physical intervention to the ...

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