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 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

the team measured the thickness of the single layers over a 775-square-mile area around Mount Vesuvius. The deposits recorded dramatic, increasingly violent pulses from the volcano. At noon on Day ...

“The unique finding implies unique processes.” An aerial view of Mount Vesuvius reveals its gaping crater. The volcano's massive eruption in 79 A.D. destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii. Yet some ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

The extreme conditions produced by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD, caused a man's brain to turn to glass. The glass brain was found five years ago, and researchers have just ...

Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano in continental Europe and is thought to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Every single resident died ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s ...

Discover 10 breathtaking images of Earth from space, featuring volcanic eruptions, heart-shaped lakes, shifting dunes, and ...

Across the bay of Naples from Pompeii, where thousands were incinerated by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, lies a hidden "super volcano" that could kill millions in a catastrophe many times worse ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...