It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how three settlements faced three distinct fates, reshaping our ...

We all know the plaster casts of Pompeii, haunting human snapshots of people caught in their final moments during the ...

A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains ...

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in a new era for the study of the ancient world.

A man fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD grabbed a terracotta mortar and held it over his head as volcanic stones rained down on the streets outside Pompeii. His skeleton, still clutching ...

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From Italy's Vesuvius to Indonesia's Krakatoa, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared stunning images of volcanoes taken from space. In a post on Instagram, the space agency wrote, "We live on an ...

A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a part of a Roman villa built before the middle of the first century. This villa, near the town of ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the ...