Pompeii casts showing victims in heavy wool clothes prompt researchers to question the long-accepted August timing of the AD ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting ...

Scientists have uncovered a construction site frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD at Pompeii, revealing ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Recent excavations in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have revealed that some enslaved people, despite being considered mere "speaking tools," received better food than ordinary people, Italy's ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...