Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient Roman town Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Of particular ...

Three researchers this week won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One expert said the breakthrough ...

A mysterious copper scroll may not be a treasure map at all - but a secret record of one of the bloodiest revolts in ancient Biblical history.

A mysterious Dead Sea Scroll has sparked a startling new theory tying it to one of the darkest periods in ancient Jewish history. Unlike the other Dead Sea Scrolls, which were written on parchment or ...