A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city ... relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies ...

Moments before one of the largest underwater volcanic eruptions smothered the Pacific island of Tonga, a strange signal ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...

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 ...

The January 15 eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) rating of at least VEI-5, roughly on par with historic ...

In recent times areas around Naples have seen a flurry of activities as government agencies conduct drills to make citizens ...

REYKJANES, Iceland (AP) — Marco di Marco moved to Iceland in 2018 from Catania, Italy, where he occasionally worked with ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.