Once Vesuvius erupted, there was no escape for the residents of Pompeii, whose last hours on earth were nothing short of ...

They preserved in volcanic ash near the Casarzano ... prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

With rooms for cold, hot, warm baths, and a plunge room, this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at ...

A thick layer of volcanic mud preserved Pompeii as it was in 79 CE, offering a unique glimpse into life in the Roman Empire.

The deadliest pyroclastic current struck at 7:07 am the morning after the eruption ... across - snaked from the volcano's crater and down the hillside, consuming Pompeii in a lethal cloud.

An entire block of Pompeii has now been uncovered, revealing a laundry and bakery, as well as the large private house. It's ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

but just this month archaeologists uncovered one of the most luxurious we've seen in the ruins of Pompeii. Nearly 2,000 years after the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption destroyed this Italian city ...