asphyxiating victims and leading to an estimated death toll of about 2,000. Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

Located near Naples and at the base of Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii was completely ... IX where archeologists discovered the two most recent victims was architecturally complex, and officials said ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

Last month, a team of researchers confirmed that the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in 79, which devastated and buried the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, also turned one victim’s ...

A fragment of the organic glass that was found inside the skull of the deceased individual, who was killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ... transformation into glass — of this victim’s ...

Five years ago, Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid-20s, had been found ...

A mixture of mud, ash and debris acted like a layer of cement, asphyxiating victims and leading to an estimated death toll of about 2,000. Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 transformed one unfortunate victim’s brain into organic glass.