THE eruption of Vesuvius has quieted down since last week, though scoriæ and ash continue to be ejected and there still seems to be a slow flow of lava, but in comparison with the activity of the ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

It was late into the night when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago ... as it appeared before the disaster, ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted ... in the first effects of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit. The city was buried in the latter stages of ...

desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. But new DNA evidence shows that many of those stories are wrong ...

This immersive archaeological exploration of Pompeii, a once-thriving Roman city, will transport you back in time – before the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A Final Takeoff ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, a young man was lying in bed when a hot cloud of ash swept down from Mount Vesuvius ... that an ash cloud from Vesuvius delivered a hot blast before quickly disappearing.

It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.