The frescos are one of many buried treasures found at the ancient Italian ... After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash before ...

Archeologists excavating Pompeii, a city that was buried under ... In November 2020, archaeologists found two bodies, ...

An analysis of 26 paint pigments found in Pompeii reveals the remarkable skill of artisan skill at mixing natural and ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

The eruption obliterated the thriving ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ... of Herculaneum," Petrone said. "The body of evidence found for the victims at Herculaneum shows that ...

“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed within ... inside the skull of the Pompeii individual (Pier Paolo Petrone ...

Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding ... built upon how these individuals were kind of found in relation to each other,” said Alissa ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

Found at the newly-excavated House ... were killed instantly. As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate ...

Plaster body casts of victims killed by toxic fumes during eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The famous eruption entombed Pompeii and Herculaneum, where glass-like remains were found inside a ...

From today, the unknown canvas by Andrea Mantegna is exhibited in the Vatican Museums, a large painting of rare power ...

Chronic arthritis was also widespread in Pompeii – found in 35% of the joints that have been studied ... preserved in molten rock points to "the rapid vaporisation of body fluids and soft tissues of ...