Archaeologists and researchers at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to ...

It is based on the recent discovery of the remains of a male adult, just outside one of the southern gates of the city, lying ...

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The destruction of Pompeii preserved ash residues on the household altars of its inhabitants. An international research team has scientifically investigated for the first time what was burned in Roman ...

Scientists have discovered that the ocean’s “missing” plastic hasn’t vanished—it has broken down into trillions of invisible nanoplastics now spread through water, air, and living organisms. These ...

New evidence revives debate over the Book of Kells’s origins, with Scottish site Portmahomack challenging long-held Iona theory among scholars. A new project by master craftsman Thomas Keyes will ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

An international team of researchers from LMU, the University of Zurich, and further partners investigated ash residues from incense burners. The substances they discovered show that Pompeii was part ...

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, ...

Celebrated every year with swathes of green and pints of Guinness, Saint Patrick is the most famous of Ireland’s trio of patron saints (the others are Brigid and Colm Cille, aka Columba). The standard ...

The International Dictionary of Psychology opined in 1989 that consciousness was “fascinating but elusive” and “nothing worth reading has been written on it.” I disagree. Consciousness isn’t entirely ...