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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. destroyed Pompeii, a flourishing city located in present-day Italy, and left its people to slowly die from the gases and ash that the volcano ...

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