We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

You've probably heard of Pompeii. That long-lost, ancient city, destroyed by one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions ...

Last October, archaeologists in Pompeii unearthed a rare tiny home and elaborate frescoes while excavating the site. A few months before that, excavators discovered the remains of two more victims ...

The result allow us to see the positions in which people perished. Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains ...

For instance, in one room of 13 people, at least six were found to be closely ... In 2018, the ancient remains of a horse were found in Pompeii's Villa of the Mysteries, with its bones remarkably ...

The eruption obliterated the thriving ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ... human or animal remains ever been found," Petrone added. Thousands of people were killed and the two ...