HERCULANEUM, Mo. – The Central boys wrestling team captured four of five contested matches during a school assembly dual on ...

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 ...

The charcoal-like lumps of papyrus could reveal the lost works of the Greek philosopher Epicurus—if people could figure out how to read them. Despite, or because of, their violent end, the remains of ...

Herculaneum in darkness during the Christmas holidays amidst accusations and bitterness. This opportunity to boost local ...

*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 ...

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 ...

“Pyroclastic flows vary in temperature. You can have cold flows and you can have supercharged, exceptionally hot flows. … If it’s cold, you’d suffocate because it’s very fluid — the ash gets in your ...

The famous Herculaneum scroll, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, has been deciphered by artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved by students in the Vesuvius ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival philosophy’s private doubts alongside the public ideal of unshakable virtue.