Historians have long believed that Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August ... Historians have been able to date the eruption of Vesuvius with apparent certainty thanks to ancient writings that ...

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 ...

There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius ... eruptions near densely populated urban centers. Sheridan has studied the 1902 eruption of ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing details of life before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. When most of us picture ...

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ... of Oxford used the nearby Diamond Light Source scanning facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the year 79 CE, a massive cloud of volcanic ash rained down on the Roman city of Herculaneum after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Along with the city of Pompeii, Herculaneum was subsequently ...

Archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a man killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in… A 21-year-old undergrad won $40,000 as part of the Vesuvius Challenge by reading the first ...