Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be ... According to many travelers, the best way to view both of these sites is to see them together on a guided ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, the scientists say they have ...

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 ...

During the Roman era, two large complexes were constructed in the area ... Mount Vesuvius, learn how attacks from the mysterious Sea Peoples led to the collapse of the Bronze Age. Then, view ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...

A man’s brain was partly turned into glass when Mount Vesuvius erupted ... the thriving Roman cities of Pompeii, burning the area under metres of ash. It is the only case on record of such ...

The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. The remains of Roman Pompeii, destroyed in 79 C.E. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are familiar across the globe. (Hard to count Japan’s Pompeii ...

This satellite image of Mount Vesuvius in Italy won DigitalGlobe's Top Image of Year contest for 2013, receiving the most votes on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and Twitter. The voting began in ...

The 360-degree view gives rise to another speculation that the celebrated commander could have witnessed the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius from ... excavations of the area for more information.