UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

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 nearby Pompeii was ... lab in Harwell, near Oxford, by ...

ROME (AP) — Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure — a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and ...

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy. Archaeologists have ...