The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be undecipherable. But new technology has allowed researchers to see what’s ...

Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town located in Campania. With a population of 5,000, it was smaller than Pompeii, although wealthier. Based on the western side of Mount Vesuvius, when the ...

If you're visiting southern Italy and planning a trip to Pompeii, there’s another ancient city you absolutely shouldn’t miss- Herculaneum. Tucked away on the Bay of Naples, this lesser-known ...

In this powerful autobiographical novel about momentous events, Charney tells an illuminating story of ordinary people ...

Artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient papyrus scroll, which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first passages of ...

The Herculaneum Scrolls contain hugely significant philosophical and literary texts from ancient Greek and Roman scholars, but were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount ...

Three students won the Vesuvius Challenge for uncovering text in the Herculaneum papyri. The students were awarded a $700,000 prize after using AI to uncover the passages. The uncovered text talks ...

Students won a competition using AI to decipher never-before-seen passages from the Herculaneum scroll which was almost destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. Winning hundreds ...

A tourist from the Netherlands has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ...

— The Herculaneum Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Nov. 20 to enter into agreements with Utility Service Co. Inc to renovate and then maintain the McNutt Street and Joachim Avenue water towers.

A sign made with a black marker by a tourist is pictured on the wall of a house in the Herculaneum Archaeological Park near Naples, Italy, in this handout picture obtained on June 3, 2024.