An ancient sample shows calcite threading through the material’s cracks and pores, with possible lessons for making modern ...
The restored Pyramid of Cestius, a somewhat bizarre mausoleum in Rome, adds range to the city's already eclectic patchwork of ...
A large cemetery containing the lavishly adorned remains of unidentified high-status individuals dating from around 2,000 ...
Long-term carbonate mineralization helped preserve a 2nd-century Roman concrete sample from Hadrian’s Villa by forming ...
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This new 3D recreation of ancient Rome allows users to fly over its iconic landmarks as they were in the 4th century
Rome in its heyday would have been a sight to behold. Home to a million people, the city was one of the great cultural ...
Archaeologists excavating the ruins of Heraclea Sintica found an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, a tool used to remove ...
From Greek fire to Roman concrete, scientists still don't totally understand how these marvelous ancient inventions functioned.
The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...
Researchers used AI tools to achieve the first complete viewings of closed scrolls burnt by the eruption that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.
An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...
Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human behavior and theology.
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