In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted violently, spewing pyroclastic flows across the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The eruption has become one of the most famous in history because the speed ...

The ancient En-Gedi scroll unfurled. Photo / Science Advances, B. Seales et al 2016. When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read: It had been found ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have provided Israeli scholars with legible text from inside the scroll — without having to unroll it You can save this article by registering for free here.

Eric Siblin is the author of the novel The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery. Plato, it might be presumed, was a big reader, but never turned the pages of a book. The Greek philosopher unrolled a ...

Fogg Museum has agreed to examine a 2,000-year-old partly disintegrated parchment scroll to determine whether it can be safely opened, Director John P. Coolidge '35 announced last night. Officials of ...