Operation Brakepoint combines high-visibility patrols with strategic enforcement,” Pevely Capt. Don Moore said.

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

Experts predict that based on the scale of the ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri that its library could hold 40,000 scrolls that might contain lost knowledge from some of the greatest writers and ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Eight distinguished British and American classicists are calling for the immediate resumption of excavation at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in Southern Italy. In a letter published in The ...

OUR sources of information in regard to the ancient world are fortunately no longer confined to books. The spade of the excavator has done more of late to illustrate the classics, to extend our ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. HERCULANEUM • The 550-foot smokestack — the same size as the Washington Monument — towers over Main Street, a constant reminder ...

ROME - A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian ...