A study published in Scientific Reports described a recent discovery at the site of the Vesuvius eruption which ... years when the volcano erupted in 79 AD near modern-day Naples.

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Investigators making the shocking find saw that the remains had dark substances inside the cavity that resembled obsidian.

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

Previously, it had been thought that the Somma Vesuviana area was only buried during a later, less famous eruption by Mount Vesuvius – in AD 472 – and not by the AD 79 eruption. However ...

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD. In 2020, the researchers found the black ...

A rare and haunting discovery inside the skull of a Roman man who perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has ... was obliterated when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. However, while Pompeii was ...

The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s when volcanologists identified pumice deposits underneath the A.D. 79 residues ... eruption of Mount Pelée on ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments ...

The preliminary analysis has also confirmed that the text was never duplicated, meaning that it has gone unread since at least A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius drowned the surrounding area in ash and ...