Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum over two days. On the first day of the eruption, Pompeii was covered in ash and falling debris ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos. It was AD 79, and the ...

The new study on the "glass brain" from Herculaneum is the latest episode in a long-running academic dispute.