Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

Some of the most famous and best-preserved dinosaur fossils were thought to have been suspended in time due to a massive ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...

The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled-up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient Roman town, according to the organizers of the ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the air, slowly killing most of the city’s population. Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...

Vesuvius in 79 A.D., "Pompeii ... lava and ash — within 20 minutes of the volcanic eruption. THINGS DO IN MEMPHIS:Indie ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city ... relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of Pompeii and everyone in it. The "Pompeii eruption" covered everything in a ...