Ceramic artifacts and a bread oven made from repurposed materials show how survivors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption returned ...

Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left ...

The cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii in 79 CE, but the Roman city didn’t remain a lifeless disaster ...

Archeologists have discovered new evidence which suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 2,000 years ago. The ancient Roman city was ...

Researchers have found evidence of former residents and settlers heading back to make a new life among the ruins of the Italian city ...

New excavations in Pompeii's Insula Meridionalis quarter have confirmed long-held suspicions that people returned to the ancient Roman city after the volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.

Some residents who couldn't afford to resettle elsewhere returned to the city, where they occupied the upper floors of ...

"According to tradition, on 24 August in the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of history's most famous natural ...

The Italian Cultural Ministry on Tuesday revealed the bodies of two men, both probably in their 50s, who died in an earthquake triggered by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption at Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

The Roman city of Pompeii was devastated following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii was quickly buried by volcanic ash, killing about 2,000 of the city’s residents, according to ...

Buena Vista Images via Getty Images When disaster struck Pompeii in 79 C.E., people didn’t die from just the infamous volcanic eruption—some perished in an earthquake at the same time.

People living in Pompeii had no word for volcano in 79 AD; it did not exist in Latin. That lack, however, did not prevent Mount Vesuvius from erupting on August 24 of that year, killing thousands, ...