Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Volcanic Eruption In 79 AD Turned Man's Brain Into Glass. How It Happened The Mount Vesuvius eruption obliterated the thriving ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

New Delhi: Scientists were stunned to find dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man who died in ancient city ...

-Herculaneum -- an ancient Roman city frozen in time by Mt. Vesuvius's eruption in the year 79 AD and yet perfectly preserved. Of the many treasures uncovered here, the most valuable aren't made ...

The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 people died while waiting for boats to save them from the volcanic eruption in 79 AD. It's now open to the public for the first time.

At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal. After surviving the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the nearly 2,000-year-old documents would crumble if ...

How ancient Herculaneum papyrus scrolls were deciphered. By David Stock Artificial ... which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...

A tourist from the Netherlands has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ...