THE activity of Vesuvius, incessant for some time past, has culminated in an eruption which, making every allowance for newspaper exaggeration, stands in the foremost rank of historic eruptions ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

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 ...

Its dramatic downfall due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is central to the exhibition. heise online visited the exhibition at the Obex in Oberhausen. At the heart of the exhibition are three im ...

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. According to many ...

Mount Vesuvius is best known for its violent eruption in A.D. 79., which devastated the Roman city of Pompeii and buried it in ash. The volcano has not erupted since 1944, but is still considered ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...