U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred scrolls.

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

The 2,000-year-old scroll was burned to a crisp by the volcano, but advanced technology has helped researchers work out ...

Bronze Age footprints in volcanic debris ... The footprints might correspond to Mount Vesuvius’s Avellino pumice eruption, which scientists believe was more powerful than the 79 CE explosion ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano's ...

Pompeii is famous for being the site of a natural disaster—the deadly 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which left the ancient city frozen in time. But before the volcano unleashed its torrent ...

Today, around 800,000 people live on the volcano's slopes and up to 3 million people reside within the potential danger zone of future eruptions, making Vesuvius "one of the world's most dangerous ...