The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

Turin university is to lead an international team aiming to use X-rays to decipher two papyri of an unknown work by a third ...

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli is where you'll find artifacts rescued from Pompeii and Herculaneum ... only have time for one museum on your Naples getaway, many recent travelers ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago ...

Archeologists excavated the scrolls in Herculaneum in the 1750s. In the early 19th century, Ferdinand IV (who lived from 1751 to 1825), king of Naples and Sicily, later gifted PHerc. 172 and five ...

He said it “contains more recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll ... that there is like 1000 more scrolls in Naples.” Havovi Todd of AP Television News ...