The sketches of gladiator stick figures were discovered during excavations in recent months in Pompeii, a once-thriving city that was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago.

Their names are long gone; their bodies as well -- covered in the ash dumped on Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ...

ROME (AP) — Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... the decaying bodies in the ash ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of more than 200 survivors from the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that swallowed up the Roman city of Pompeii in 79AD. University of Miami professor ...

An ancient Roman beach buried nearly 2,000 years ago due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has opened to the public in Italy ...

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 ...

The remains of two men who were killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD have been discovered in Pompeii. Thought to be a master and his slave, the incredibly well-preserved bodies are ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely ... preserved in the plaster casts of bodies that eerily capture the final contorted poses of some of Vesuvius’ victims. It makes sense, then ...

There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius unleashed in ... has studied the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique ...

Can we identify the survivors of Mount Vesuvius’s devastating volcanic eruption in 79 CE? The second episode of the three-part docuseries Pompeii: The New Dig, which aired last night ...