A man fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD carried a set of surgical instruments with him as he ran toward the ...

Archaeologists working beneath the grounds of Margam Abbey in south Wales have recovered evidence of a Roman villa so well ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

For nearly 2,000 years they lay mute, hidden in a tomb of hardened ash. In the 1980s, National Geographic visited the scientists piecing together the victims' lives and fiery deaths.

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

A young man caught indoors during the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius left behind one of archaeology's strangest remains: a ...

Instead, they speak as one about that infinity pool (the one that’s graced more magazine covers than a nineties’ supermodel ...

The archaeologists behind the video believe the man covered his head with a bowl to protect himself from volcanic debris. By Margherita Bassi Published Jun 18, 2026 8:53 AM EDT Add Popular Science ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

If someone told you 20 years ago that we’d be gaining new information through mini-computers in our pockets, you would ...

More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over ...

The discovery of an incredible 6th-century BC burial complex in Sirolo, central Italy has shed fresh light on the ...