The Herculaneum archaeological park in Ercolano also contains the remains of 330 people who died fleeing the volcano, which ...

Science The dramatic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, known for destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has ...

The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to ...

Scientists have deciphered a document lost in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, using AI to read ink invisible… The Greek ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities ...

During an ongoing archaeological excavation of more than 13,000 rooms in a Pompeii archeological park—a location preserved by ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically ... world that has captured popular attention as ...

Researchers recently discovered bloodshed-themed stick-figure sketches in a cluster of houses in the doomed ancient city ...

Nearby Mount Vesuvius began erupting in late 79 C.E., spewing debris and hot, toxic gasses over the town. (While historians previously dated the disaster to August 24, recent research suggests it ...

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 ...

A young man from the Netherlands was reprimanded by Italian police after he allegedly vandalized a historic Roman wall while on holiday. The incident took place in Herculaneum, an Ancient Roman ...

Farritor was the first to read a word from one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls as part of the Vesuvius Challenge — a competition with $1,000,000 in prizes for people who can unlock the ...