Archaeologists have revitalized a Roman flower garden in Pompeii that survived an earthquake in 62 A.D. before being buried ...

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

This became known as the Battle of Mount Vesuvius, Spartacus’s first major victory, achieved through a mix of genius, audacity, and daring. Little is known about Spartacus before these events, except ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano’… ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Archaeologists have unearthed heartbreaking evidence of a family's last-ditch attempts to flee from the incoming destruction during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass. The 2,000-year-old remains are the only known examples of their kind. By Andrew Paul. Published Feb 27, 2025 11:00 AM EST ...

G. Giordano et al. Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE. Scientific Reports . Published online February 27, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88894-5.

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass after super-hot ash cloud. A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super ...