Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under ... to 40-30 B.C., meaning the works were about 100 years old when the volcano erupted. "Both the frieze in the House of Thiasus and in the Villa of ...

The city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass when Vesuvius erupted, and archaeologists have been unearthing it ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped ... Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery ...

thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt.

Learn about the ancient rhinos that lived and died together in Nebraska in the Middle Miocene.

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

Excavators in Pompeii recently unearthed the remains of two more victims of the ancient volcanic eruption that encased ... to be closer to 16,000 when deaths from surrounding towns are considered.

For 12 hours, the volcano rained ash and pumice on the city, and soon the eruptions would worsen ... part of the larger ...

The city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass when Vesuvius erupted, and archaeologists ... called the Investigating the Archeology of Death in Pompeii Research Project, began ...

Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

Twelve million years ago, a massive herd of rhinos gathered at a watering hole in what is now northeastern Nebraska. But when ...