The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ... minute account of how the devastation unfolded across an agonising 32-hour period. It all began at about 12pm on the 24th day of August or ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began ... One offered an hour-by-hour reconstruction, extending the chronology from the previously ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

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

A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a temperature of more than 500°C in a process that transformed fragments of his brain ...

A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped archaeologists unravel the sequence of events that wiped out Pompeii and ...