A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

The scroll was from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which burned many written texts from the ancient times. Mt. Vesuvius was the home of marvelous palaces, with huge bathrooms ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius ...

Learn More. AI has helped decode words from a scroll burned in Mount Vesuvius’ A.D. 79 eruption — without unrolling it. This breakthrough, part of the Vesuvius Challenge, brings lost ancient ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...