Silenus riding a wineskin, fountain figure, Replica of 1st century BC statue from the Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum © The ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – An Overland, Missouri, man is charged with stealing a muscle car worth many tens of thousands of dollars from a dealership in Herculaneum. According to a probable cause ...

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 ...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a mount, bolts it down, then runs through some safety checks before retreating ...

The Herculaneum papyri, scrolls buried and charred by Vesuvius, are the most tantalizing puzzle in Roman archaeology. I recently visited the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, where most of the papyri ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British ...

HERCULANEUM — A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with an SUV about 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Highway 61, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Storms rocked the St. Louis area with a tornado damaging ...

The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a ...

The scrolls were found in 1752, but AI technology has only recently allowed them to be read. Researchers have virtually unfurled a Herculaneum scroll which was rescued from Pompeii after the eruption ...