Guatemala lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity. In June 2018, 215 people were killed and a similar number left missing when Fuego volcano erupted, ...

Standing at 12,300 feet, Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego is among the most active in Central America and last erupted in June 2023.

Prayers are pouring in after a "massive" volcano erupted on Monday afternoon. A "massive" volcano erupted in Guatemala on ...

A powerful eruption of the Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala has sent shockwaves through the region, with strong explosions, incandescent material, and pyroclastic flows threatening nearby communities. The ...

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

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

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

A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

A young Roman's final moments in Herculaneum were so intense that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, his brain didn’t burn—it ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.