According to the study, the family attempted to lock themselves in a room, using a bed wedged against the door to barricade ...

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

Viticulture in Pompeii rises from the ashes as a project gets underway to plant historically accurate and 100% organic ...

New Pompeii study uncovers one family’s terrifying final moments - Archaeologists discover bed wedged against door of a house ...

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

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Pompeii's history reads like a Greek tragedy. Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius.

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Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

According to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the frescoes feature life-sized ... believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow ...

That’s what happened almost 2000 years ago in Italy, when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79AD. But the cloud of hot ash that buried Pompeii, instantly destroying it, also preserved the city ...

so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns. As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was ...