The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

A powerful eruption of the Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala has sent shockwaves through the region, with strong explosions, ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

When Mount Vesuvius — near the modern-day Italian city of Naples — erupted in 79 AD, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

The pyroclastic flow likely went over the Notanidao Pass, also in the city, which currently stands about 320 meters above sea level, Tsuji said. Pyroclastic flows sometimes travel over the sea.