Christopher Nolan will film scenes for The Odyssey on the Sicilian island where Homer’s Greek hero Odysseus came ashore.

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An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...

Satellite imagery shows Malta and southern Italy hit by a massive desert dust plume caused by a cyclone originating in North ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Rather than permitting us to return to nearby Sicily, the Italian Coast Guard orders us to the port of Crotone to disembark ...

Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm The archaeological site of ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a library of papyrus scrolls was incinerated in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, for the ...

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Dreaming of sailing to the Greek Islands? Nic Compton narrates leg two of his odyssey from the UK to Greece starting at the ...