Nearly 2,000 years ago, a library of papyrus scrolls was incinerated in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, for the first time, researchers have unfurled the carbonized remains of one such ...

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week. The ministry of ...

A miraculous step forward in material science could unlock a solution to the water crisis plaguing the globe by sourcing water from vapor.

Scientists have found a molecular switch that reverses cancer cells in the body back to their normal, healthy state.

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

About 10,000 people have left on ferries and planes in recent days as hundreds of small quakes were registered in the surrounding sea.

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...

More than 11,000 people have already left the island of Santorini in recent days.

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around Santorini since 24 January. The seismic activity is concentrated in the area between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, with ...