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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

3D mapping and artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient Herculaneum papyrus scroll which had been digitally scanned ...

HERCULANEUM, Mo. — Neighbors are blaming a nearby construction project for damage to their Jefferson County homes. They said blasting on a new Love's Travel Center in Herculaneum is causing ...

With the help of AI, 15 passages have been deciphered from a 2,000-year-old unrolled Herculaneum scroll, providing a glimpse into the thoughts of an ancient philosopher.

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 ...

Scientists are using clever scanning techniques to identify the Greek text written within the ancient Herculaneum scrolls in Naples - without having to unroll the fragile 'papyrus' pages.

Local News Herculaneum to start work on water towers It will cost $616,376 to renovate the McNutt tower and $423,328 for the Joachim tower.

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 ...