It was late into the night when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago sent volcanic material over the beach at the ancient city of Herculaneum, where hundreds of men, women and ...

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 ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar ...

Extreme heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Italy was so immense it turned one victim's brain into glass, a study has suggested. The volcano erupted in 79 AD, killing thousands and destroying ...

Historians have long believed that Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 AD ... He took a ship to stage a rescue for those in danger from the volcano. Flying rock crushed Pompeii victim's ...

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 ...

Sheridan has studied the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of ... of 18 municipalities on the slopes of the volcano. The Vesuvius emergency plan has not been significantly updated ...

The two skeletons were found in the insula of the Casti Amanti, beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material ... that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ... in what happened the day after the eruption and what happened on the other side of the volcano,” De Simone says. A niche in a wall of ...

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 ...