The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the most iconic disasters in human history. This volcano destroyed the city of Pompeii, leaving many victims encased in ash. While horrible to think ...

POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...

In the vast network of historical and scientific debates, few enigmas have sparked as much fascination as the exact date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the cities of Pompeii and ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. But new DNA evidence shows that many of those stories are wrong ...

No one could decipher them because they'd been burned and buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted about 2,000 years ago, leaving them charred and far too delicate to unroll. In fact, previous efforts ...

which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748. According to many ...

The discovery of two skeletons in the ruins of Pompeii suggests powerful earthquakes accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. More from News The discovery of two ...

Mount Vesuvius is perhaps the most famous volcano in the world. Known for its catastrophic eruption in 79 AD that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under volcanic ash, Vesuvius is ...

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. For centuries, archaeologists and ...