Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago. The tightly bound scroll cannot be opened since its delicate, burnt pa… ...

Toward morning this new eruption also subsided, and from thence until Tuesday, the 17th inst., with the exception of occasional columns of smoke, the mountain slumbered.

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano’… ...

T he eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the most iconic disasters in human history. This volcano destroyed the city of Pompeii, leaving many victims encased in ash.

For his 2022 book, “Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius,” Dr. Foss examined 79 early hand-copied manuscripts of the letters and mapped out how textual errors had been compounded.

The eruption, which took place nearly 2,000 years ago, caught citizens in the midst of daily life. For around 18 hours, small rock and ash particles fell on the city, causing people to seek shelter.

Vesuvius is best-known for the eruption of A.D. 79, which entombed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. There was another terrible eruption in 1631, which killed 4,000.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...

POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...