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

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

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

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 ...

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

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the air, slowly killing most of the city’s population. Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Naples, Italy—asserts that ancient DNA taken from some of the victims ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

An underground volcano eruption, with the power of hundreds of atomic bombs and which caused deadly tsunamis, gave out a ...

Nearly 4 million people visited the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii in 2023, a third more than the previous year.