The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets.

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, galactically speaking. Unfortunately, the planet HD 20794 d does not ...

One of the spa rooms with mosaic flooring – credit Archaeological Park of Pompeii Press Office, released. Though it is a pretty standard piece of Roman civicscape, a spa unearthed in Pompeii is ...

Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption, which devastated the Roman city in 79CE, have revealed a detailed timeline of how the horror unfolded across 32 hours. The cataclysmic ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...