Extreme heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Italy was so immense it turned one victim's brain into glass, a study has suggested. The volcano erupted in 79 AD, killing thousands and destroying ...

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, scientists are offering £400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains inside a small, makeshift bedroom in a villa that was undergoing reconstruction when ...

Historians have long believed that Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 AD, destroying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii. But now, an inscription has been uncovered dated to mid-October - almost ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

Spartacus escaped in 73 BC and took refuge on nearby Mount Vesuvius, where large numbers ... Spartacus is thought to have been killed in the battle. Around 6,000 of his followers who escaped ...

desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. But new DNA evidence shows that many of those stories are wrong ...