For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

Renowned for making Latin accessible and enjoyable to generations of students worldwide, this new edition of the Cambridge Latin Course has been re-energised by the ... The story begins in the town of ...

The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s when volcanologists identified pumice deposits underneath the A.D. 79 residues. But in recent years Mastrolorenzo ...

Historians have been able to date the eruption of Vesuvius with apparent certainty thanks to ancient writings that purported to share first-hand accounts. They came from Pliny the Younger ...

Apart from the "emotional impact" of these discoveries, they allow archaeologists to study the people of the city, and even how they tried to escape the eruption of Vesuvius. This latest discovery ...

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.

Known as PHerc.172, the relic was blackened by the fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. Researchers previously used an artificial intelligence model to decode the contents of ...

New research has revealed that earthquakes played a significant role in the destruction of Pompeii during the infamous 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. A collaborative study led by researchers ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...