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

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

two villas and the bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption, which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Last October, archaeologists in Pompeii ...

The hard skull and spine of the man—whose remains archeologists found still in his bed in the town of Herculaneum—likely protected the brain from complete thermal breakdown, allowing fragments to form ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction ... assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more. Volcanic debris “poured ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum over ... the first pyroclastic flow was ejected from the volcano, a turbulent mix of ash, pumice ...

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 ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

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