Pompeii was famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, killing several thousands. Ever since the 18th century, excavations have been removing volcanic rock to uncover the ...

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This timeline suggests the villa was abandoned ... combined with its eventual burial by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, also suggests his death prompted its abandonment. Plus, the villa’s ...

VICTIMS of the 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption died when extreme heat caused their blood to boil and their heads to explode, experts say. Researchers said some of the victims who died were trapped in ...

The winners of a contest called the Vesuvius Challenge trained their machine-learning algorithms on scans of the rolled-up papyrus. Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities ...

The narrative was found in a papyrus scroll that had been almost completely destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. In the text, it tells the story of the philosopher, a disciple of ...

The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants of another villa built above it many years later, may have been where Augustus, the first Roman emperor, drew his last ...

Such was the heat of the pyroclastic surge produced by Vesuvius – believed to have been between 400C and 500C – that the brains and blood of victims instantly boiled.

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

They arrived at this hypothesis because the timeline aligned with the works ... "Excavations around Mount Vesuvius have been ongoing since the 18th century. It was known that beneath the ash ...

A papyrus scroll that was buried under metres of volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago may have revealed how Plato, one of the fathers of western thought, spent his final ...