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 ...

It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian ...

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 ...

Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...

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 ...

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 ...

a set of ancient papyrus scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost two millennia ago. The challenge, which boasted over $1M in rewards, drew a worldwide pool of competitors and ...

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 ...

The discovery was made in a villa on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two men who died in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman ...

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 ...

(Pompeii Archeological Park via AP) MILAN (AP) — The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that ...