A laboratory study of a Roman Republican shipwreck off the Croatian island of Ilovik has turned a routine conservation ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Ancient furnace workers experimented with heating the ends of glass tubes to rework them. One day, someone blew into that ...

Modern technology is transforming the study of the ancient world. Archaeologists and historians now have access to scientific ...

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

AI helped researchers recover the complete text of a sealed Herculaneum scroll, marking a breakthrough in reading ancient ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

From Greek fire to Roman concrete, scientists still don't totally understand how these marvelous ancient inventions ...

The findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, show that ancient vineyards were part of the Roman Empire’s highly sophisticated agricultural network that laid the foundation for ...

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...

AI and advanced X-ray imaging have decoded the first sealed Herculaneum scroll, opening the door to reading hundreds of ...

The archaeologists behind the video believe the man covered his head with a bowl to protect himself from volcanic debris.