On the Bay of Naples in 79 CE, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and the many towns, villages, ...

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 ...

It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Roman city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient ...

During an ongoing archaeological excavation of more than 13,000 rooms in a Pompeii archeological park—a location preserved by the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD—researchers found one room ...

2,000-year-old DNA is revealing more about the people who died during the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The superheated ...

The work is part of an excavation project that has uncovered 13,000 rooms in 1,070 houses that stood in the Italian city before being buried in volcanic ash by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii ...

These municipalities are primarily in the general area of Pompeii. But they tended to be north of Mount Vesuvius, outside the zone of the greatest destruction. It seems as though most survivors ...

These municipalities are primarily in the general area of Pompeii. But they tended to be north of Mount Vesuvius, outside the zone of the greatest destruction. It seems as though most survivors ...

The room has been interpreted as a sacrarium, or a Roman sanctuary. It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Roman city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient ...

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 of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Roman city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new findings. An ornate "blue ...