A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Ten years ago, scientists discovered ancient hunting camps beneath the lake. Now, DNA samples from a submerged peat bog could ...

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Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge had to develop their own programs to interpret existing 3D scans of the coiled scroll, ...

The frescoes depict animals including chickens, waterfowl, partridges, and a wild boar, alongside baskets filled with seafood, including blue cod, squid, and shellfish.

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii discovered previously unseen frescoes in the colonnaded hall of a lavish private residence. The ...

When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the volcanic material enveloped them and their vibrant city in a pyroclastic shroud.

Two major travelling shows have just opened in eastern Australia: Machu Picchu and the Gold Empires of Peru at the Australian Museum, Sydney, and Pompeii at Canberra’s National Museum.

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

Academics and armchair archaeologists still can't agree on the date when Pompeii was destroyed in a shower of volcanic hellfire. It was almost certainly sometime in late 79 CE, but was it August ...