They were turned to carbonized lumps by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Now scientists are offering £400,000 to the person ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

City-level strategies to cope with climate change can benefit from the insights of volcano scientists, who have long ...

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 ...

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

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

In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the ... An estimated 2,000 people died in the city during the eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius.