Almost 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius exploded, scholars continue to uncover extraordinary archaeological remains ...

THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is largely considered to be one of the worst in history – incinerating ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

A new archaeological study has revealed how one family desperately tried to save themselves after the eruption of Mount ...

According to the study, the family attempted to lock themselves in a room, using a bed wedged against the door to barricade ...

A “ZOMBIE” volcano could be coming back to life after lying dormant for hundreds of thousands of years. Ominous rumblings ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

The morning of March 16, 1980, marked the end of 123 years of peaceful solace on the slopes of Mount St. Helens as a series ...