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

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 ...

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

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

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

Discover 25 facts that history forgot to mention, from Napoleon's true role to a president's parrot. Uncover bizarre, ...

Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, ...

Few American landmarks wear their age as quietly as Jamestown, Virginia. Standing on a small peninsula along the James River, it looks peaceful now, almost ordinary. Yet beneath its soil, centuries of ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

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

Students at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, archaeologists hope to open the sprawling space to the public ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...