When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the volcanic material ...

To get a clearer picture of what everyday life in ancient Rome was really like, visit the well-preserved (and unlucky) city ...

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 ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

Some of the people who were buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted may have been ... of the researchers at the time.” When the bodies were initially found, scientists made conclusions ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used ... they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. But new DNA evidence shows that many of ...

POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...

In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens ... Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and archaeologists ...