A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped ...

It buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a rapidly moving flow of rock and ash called a pyroclastic flow. Many bodies have been found at the sites. They have been preserved as if they ...

burying Pompeii and neighboring villages like Herculaneum. As much as 20 feet of debris covered some areas, mixed with ash that hardened and essentially left Pompeii frozen in time while the ...

A young man was lying in bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory put forward by ...

She was there on her own terms. From golden Mycenae to the ash-blasted ruins of Pompeii: the remains from the ancient world are telling us a different story from the one we always thought.

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

Recovered from the coastal town of Herculaneum, which along with Pompeii was wiped out by the ... lying face down on a bed buried by volcanic ash. A new analysis of samples of the glass found ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

When Mount Vesuvius -- near the modern-day Italian city of Naples -- erupted in 79 AD, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in a fast-moving blanket of rock and ash called a pyroclastic ...