Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...

Eight distinguished British and American classicists are calling for the immediate resumption of excavation at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in Southern Italy. In a letter published in The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Herculaneum Black Cats senior Clark Struckhoff (33) breaks through tackle attempts by the John Burroughs defense during the Class 3 district 2 quarterfinal playoff game between the John Burroughs ...

In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a sprawling library with hundreds of scrolls, untouched since Mount Vesuvius’ ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team competing in the Vesuvius Challenge. Among the ancient Greek words identified ...

History lovers who missed the opportunity to visit the British Museum’s blockbuster 2013 exhibition, “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum,” in person are in luck. Beginning today, the London ...

Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum -- which opens Thursday and runs to Sept. 29 -- wants it to be equally famous ...

OUR sources of information in regard to the ancient world are fortunately no longer confined to books. The spade of the excavator has done more of late to illustrate the classics, to extend our ...