“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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

This is the first evidence of a fossilised brain being uncovered around the volcano and is the first ... at Herculaneum by the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius shows compelling evidence that ...

The brain of a victim caught up in the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 1,000 years ago turned to glass in the 550C heat. Towns including Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as smaller ...

Imagine a volcano so powerful that it screamed before it exploded! 🌋💥 That’s exactly what happened with Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, and scientists were completely stunned. This eruption wasn’t just ...