The Mount Vesuvius eruption had somehow turned the man's brain into glass. It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

You've probably heard of Pompeii. That long-lost, ancient city, destroyed by one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Robert Harris' 2003 novel ‘Pompeii' has been published in a stunning new edition by The Folio Society. The acclaimed British novelist is noted for his works of historical fiction, more recently ...

The bustling city was leveled in the year 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius blew its top, killing 10% of Pompeii’s 20,000 residents while coating the area in thick ash.

In AD 79, one of the deadliest volcanic events in European history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The nearby Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were ... meaning 'the 16th day before 1 ...

The glass-like substance was found in 2020 in the skull of a person who died in the eruption near Pompeii in 79 AD, and experts have ... in a 510C cloud of hot ash before very quickly cooling ...