A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

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

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum over two days. On the first ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

NBC News’ Molly Hunter got a look at the new discoveries being unearthed in Pompeii, the former Roman city that was buried ...

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Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices ...