Recently, the remains of two victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption that wiped out the city of Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago ...

The findings provide a glimpse of the final moments of the people who attempted to escape the ancient Roman city, the ...

Pompeii's not-so-ancient Roman remains Pompeii guard dog mosaic back on show How many people do volcanoes kill? But it was not slow-moving molten lava that killed most of the people of Pompeii.

Geraldine Collinge, the director of Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire, selects Pierre-Jacques Volaire's An Eruption ...

Such lava flows don't kill many people. While it burns and buries everything ... It was pyroclastic flows that destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in AD 79. And they claimed nearly 30,000 lives ...

In fact, the people of Pompeii had become so used to tremors rumbling through ... In just a few hours, a fast-moving current of lava, ash and noxious gases known as a ‘pyroclastic flow’ surged from ...

According to Tedesco, there is no question the volcano will erupt again, potentially transforming Goma into a modern Pompeii ... Meanwhile, people continue to live on top of the lava.

The lovely scenery of the Bay of Naples is again made awfully grand and dangerously sublime, by the streams of lava which ... and Pompeii may have been again enacted. The people seemed to be ...

Exactly one hundred years ago, Greek and French archaeologists uncovered the remains of a "prehistoric Pompeii" deep under ... inhabited by highly civilized people, the eruption of Thera must ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, the deaths were instantaneous. People didn't know what ... Some eruptions ooze lava in picturesque, slow-moving streams.

Thousands of earthquakes, including one that drove 1,500 people into temporary shelter ... during its historic destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD. A number of scientists are warning of a possible ...

The findings provide a glimpse of the final moments of the people who attempted to escape the ancient Roman city, the archaeologists said. Pompeii was an exuberant ... pyroclastic flow — hot volcanic ...