For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

For the first time in two millennia, a Roman scroll charred by Mount Vesuvius's eruption is being read using advanced X-ray ...

The ancient origin of this argument is witnessed by an early challenge from Epicurus, a Greek philosopher of the 3rd century B.C. Epicurus claimed that all order and design in the universe arose ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

Little of the text has been deciphered so far. One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for "disgust". Peter Toth, a curator at the Bodleian Library, said: "We need better ...

His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) became instant classics. The second ...

The government of Greece declared a state of emergency Thursday after a series of earthquakes near Santorini have prompted people to flee the popular tourist destination. The Climate Crisis and ...

The ancient ... philosophy Enter the philosophers. Thales of Miletus sparked a groundbreaking revolution, proposing the unthinkable. Water was the essence of all matter, and when we say all matter, we ...