Barricaded at home. First, they tried to save themselves from the fury of Mount Vesuvius by placing a bed across the door to ...

Archaeologists uncovered remains and objects in a Pompeii house, revealing the final moments of residents during the 79 A.D.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii is not a new ... coming from the volcano was large enough to ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius say they have ...

Is your knowledge of Pompeii strong enough to withstand our flow of questions?

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 ...

He died during the eruption of Mount ... Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder wanted to reassure the people of Pompeii and help his friends there out of any danger. Leaving his nephew, Pliny the Younger, at ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.