Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

THE eruption of Vesuvius has quieted down since last week, though scoriæ and ash continue to be ejected and there still seems to be a slow flow of lava, but in comparison with the activity of the ...

After studying the park’s lava flows and lichen growth, we snake our way down Vesuvius to the minibus. The rest of the day involves visiting the old Vesuvius observatory, which was founded in 1841 and ...

From the crater formed by the eruption of 1794, which is two miles in circumference, clouds of smoke began to issue, and then through the cracks in its sides small streams of melted lava were seen ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the smaller town of Herculaneum under deadly layers of volcanic ash, pumice and pyroclastic flows.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain ... that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly ... Unlike pyroclastic flows, which hug the ground, an ash ...

In contrast, the subsequent pyroclastic flows would have only reached 869 degrees Fahrenheit—and would have cooled down too slowly. A piece of the glass fossil from the Roman man's brain.