Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

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

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2 ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

AN ANCIENT underground labyrinth city with its own advanced water system has been discovered after researchers stumbled across it in a garden. The sprawling network of twisting passages was found ...

The markings were made over 1,000 years before the infamous 79 AD eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. The discovery was made during excavation work for a gas pipeline in the southeast, ...

this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at Pompeii. After a nearly two-year excavation, archaeologists also discovered the jaw-dropping art, mosaic floors, and stonework that ...

Among them is Skara Brae, a remarkably preserved settlement on Mainland’s west coast, often referred to as the “Scottish Pompeii.” Discovered in 1850 after a storm unearthed it from beneath ...