"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived 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 ...

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Survivors of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 returned to the ash-covered Roman city in the centuries after the blast and lived on the upper floors of buildings, new excavations ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic showpieces, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

Italy's Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 ...

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

A volcano that has been active in recent years erupted again on Hawaii’s Big Island on Friday, according to the U.S.