In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 20 feet of ash, ... Pumice, mud, and volcanic debris rained down on Pompeii for the next 12 hours.

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries ...

A rchaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered the remains of two more victims of the volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago, reported Reuters on Monday.

The ash spewed by the volcano coated the bodies of people and animals and encased buildings, monuments, mosaics, frescoes, sculptures and other artifacts in Pompeii and other surrounding towns.

The “two victims of the eruption” were found inside a small room where they appeared to have been trapped and sheltering from the eruption that buried Pompeii in pumice and volcanic ash ...

There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local Italian family, it was a day just like any other.

[Related: ‘Violent’ earthquakes accompanied the infamous volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.] The genetic data revealed that these Pompeiians had diverse genomic backgrounds.

An estimated 20,000 people lived in Pompeii at the time and many were consumed by a wave of ash, pumice and mud, freezing them in place beneath a fresh layer of volcanic sediment.