Archaeologist and author Rubén Montoya reviews the history of the famous location razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

VICTIMS of the 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption died when extreme heat ... All who huddled in the chambers died, their bodies trapped inside for thousands of years before they were discovered by ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79 ... As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate how many people died ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79 ... As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate how many people died ...

A three-part PBS documentary explores the revelatory recent excavations of the ancient Italian city buried by the eruption of ...

Headline:Cincinnatians can now experience the sights, sounds and sensations of the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii unearthed a fresco on the wall of a house that may be the oldest known depiction of a pizza.

Read on to explore some of the world's oldest places that still draw huge crowds, arranged from youngest to oldest… When ...

Researchers have unearthed evidence that the inhabitants of Herculaneum were subjected to the full force of ‘pyroclastic currents’—a lethal mixture of gas and volcanic particles that descended upon ...