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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

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 ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum.

There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius ... eruptions near densely populated urban centers. Sheridan has studied the 1902 eruption of ...

Leading volcanologists, archaeologists and forensic scientists reveal how the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD79, have been perfectly preserved in their ...

(Reuters) - It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark ...