After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash before they eventually decayed. Since the mid 1800s, the voids that these bodies left ...

as the victims ' brains instantly turned to ash. In Pompeii, two miles further from the volcano than Herculaneum, people were ...

The lost city of Pompeii, now an archaeological site in Italy’s southern region, was used as a resort by Rome’s high class until Mount Vesuvius’s volcanic eruption buried it entirely ash in ...

Beneath the arches, a large pile of building materials was found. The ancient Greco-Roman city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E ...

Pompeii (Naples), May 29 - A new body has been discovered during ongoing ... burying the city in rock and ash. He was struck by a 300-kilo rock, which beheaded him. Archaeologists found the ...

It is the latest stunning find from Pompeii, which is almost perfectly preserved beneath ash and pumice deposited by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The two frescoes, which are painted on ...

Ancient Pompeii has never ceased to astonish. During one of the very earliest excavations there, in 1772, participants were stunned by the impressions left in the hard debris by the bodies of ...

The city sat under a layer of volcanic ash for centuries until it was re-discovered in the 18th century, says the website for the Smithsonian. The ruins of Pompeii is the world's only ...

(AFP/Getty Images) In the ancient city of Pompeii, which was preserved under a blanket of ash and smoke from the Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption in 79 A.D., archaeologists have uncovered a banquet ...