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… ...

In A.D. 79, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii had a rare transformation: His brain seemingly turned into glass. But scientists have long debated how it happened, because the ...

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.

Archaeologists uncovered disturbing details about a Pompeii family's fight for survival during the destructive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The Pompeii Archaeological Park announced the ...

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

Excavations found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

In the ruins of Herculaneum, an Ancient Roman city on the west coast of Italy that was buried by Mount Vesuvius's catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D., researchers made a startling discovery: a human ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius say they have ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its ... result of such a unique process attained a perfect state of preservation of the brain and its microstructures,” they wrote, ...