A massive pyramidal monument, believed to be 2,200 years old, has been uncovered in the Judean Desert, providing new insight ...

A 2,200-year-old pyramid-shaped structure and artifacts were uncovered in the Judean Desert, reshaping history. The IAA-led dig near Nahal Zohar invites volunteers to help uncover its purpose.

The excavation is part of a wide-ranging campaign launched eight years ago to protect archaeological sites in the Judean ...

The papyrus scroll is nearly 2,000 years old and was left badly charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ad 79. Scholars are now ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows a papyrus scroll as one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum ...

Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

In 2024, he catapulted into the limelight by doing something that had stumped historians for centuries—deciphering a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum using artificial ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed […] ...