The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

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Investigators making the shocking find saw that the remains had dark substances inside the cavity that resembled obsidian.

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ... were about 100 years old when the volcano erupted. "Both the frieze in the ...

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The Mountain Ridge High School winter percussion ensemble performs at Mountain Ridge High School in Herriman. The Mountain ...

Two rare and almost life-seized statues have been discover during the digging of a massive tomb in Pompeii, Italy.According ...

The city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass when Vesuvius erupted, and archaeologists have been unearthing it since the 1700s, in a large, ongoing excavation. The current dig ...