The use of AI to read burnt papyrus from a Roman villa has excited classicists. However, residents are less enthusiastic about the prospect of more digging
Most of the city, defined as ‘an open-air archaeological laboratory,’ remains unexcavated. Less famous and not as busy as Pompeii, the site has introduced new visits and promises extraordinary finds
For the first time ever, a comprehensive exhibit of astonishingly rare wooden remnants from ancient times opens in Reggia di Portici, an 18th-century palace just down the road from Herculaneum, which was covered in mud after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Scientists have discovered Herculaneum victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius were blasted with such extreme heat that their soft tissue disappeared.