While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

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

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

While conventional wisdom says Pompeii was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, skeletal remains recently found in the ruins reveal that earthquakes may have also played a ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius loosed a deadly pyroclastic surge on the wealthy seaside town of Herculaneum, burying everything in its path (a marble head of an Amazon recently unearthed at the ...

The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s when volcanologists identified pumice deposits underneath the A.D. 79 residues. But in recent years Mastrolorenzo ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

How do you measure the size of a volcanic eruption? Just as seismologists measure the size of an earthquake using the Richter scale, volcanologists use an eruption magnitude scale called the ...

which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748. According to many ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced the discovery of ancient murals that shed light on ...

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 ...

One common misconception about the eruption of Vesuvius is that it happened suddenly and was over in an instant. But some experts suggest the events could have taken as long as seven hours.