The Roman city of Pompeii was the site of one of Antiquity’s biggest tragedies. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in it in AD79. When the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupted, Pompeii (and most of its ...

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 ...

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British ...

The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a scale that goes from one to ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

Chemical records preserved in Pompeii’s public baths show how polluted well water shaped Roman bathing before aqueducts arrived.