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An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X ...

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Experts say the frescoes on the walls of an ancient banquet hall in Pompeii are among the finest ever found in the city ...

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Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

Not till 2020, around 1,941 years after he breathed his last, did scientists demonstrate that the unfortunate volcano victim ... the ancient Roman city more famously buried and preserved under ...

Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Yet that very same volcano would erupt and doom ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...