Mount Vesuvius blew its top in 79 CE, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice, famously preserving victims that capture their final moments. The volcano remains active today ...

The saga of the Herculaneum scrolls goes back nearly 2,000 years when the Italian settlements of Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Stabiae and Herculaneum were destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption of AD ...

By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption, bodies of the ...

172, showing the word ‘disgust’, one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when ...

In the library of a Roman villa in Herculaneum (Heraklion in Greek), there were hundreds of papyrus scrolls. However, they turned to ashes when the town faced a powerful blast of heat, ash and pumice ...

Here is a breakdown of the destruction in Gaza from the conflict prompted by the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by militants from Hamas, which at the time ruled the Palestinian enclave. The Hamas ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

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The Herculaneum Papyri are a collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Roman city of Herculaneum, Italy, which was both destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Good morning, Early Birds. After what felt like three months in one, January is finally over. But the famed forecaster Punxsutawney Phil says winter isn’t done yet. Send tips to earlytips@ ...