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

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 ...

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings scattered all over the place, ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash ...

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 ...

It was caused by a super-hot ash cloud that is thought to have ... sporadic cases of which have been found at Herculaneum and Pompeii. "However, in no other case in the world have vitrified ...

while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

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