For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum.

The Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head features a woman’s face with carefully engraved details like her eyes, nose, mouth and ...

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

Experience the ancient city’s destruction and rebirth in this immersive exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

There’s nothing like grabbing a morning espresso, then hopping on a train and setting off to an unknown destination. When I ...

The break will soon be over. From the shimmering balloon room to the jumping spider - where you can still recharge your ...

The iconic Greek holiday island is literally shaking, and residents are escaping while they can.

Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in ...