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 ...

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman was immediately labelled, by the archaeologists who uncovered her, as the man’s wife.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

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

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., burying Pompeii in ash and pumice ... as a main coloring material in the Mediterranean. While volcanic systems that produce baryte and alunite are ...

A group of Herriman high school band students are headed to the "Olympics" of percussion competition just three years after ...

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 ...