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

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

The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants ... Related: The 5 craziest ways emperors gained the throne in ancient Rome The second-century villa at Somma ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

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

Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius ... toured the city's ancient ruins in the ...

offering a remarkably well-preserved snapshot of ancient Roman life. Buried under layers of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the city remained frozen in ...

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

They hail from an ancient library in the Roman city of Herculaneum and, as a result of Mount Vesuvius erupting in ... a historian of ancient Greece and Rome at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice ...