AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice.

The scroll, which was burnt during the devastating 79AD eruption, is too delicate to be unrolled. However, through virtual unwrapping using AI and X-ray imaging, experts have been able to uncover ...

SOME of Hollywood’s biggest names have lost their glitzy homes to the raging wildfires that are sweeping across Los Angeles. The Pacific Palisades, a haven for A-Lister types, has been hit ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

But the Palisades fire destroyed it last week. "What value do you put on an entire community where the land is burnt to a crisp, where you don’t have restaurants or grocery stores, gas stations ...

Bodleian Library The ancient scroll was burnt to a crisp by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius "We're confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.