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.

Pompeii archaeologists uncover tragic final moments of two victims of Mount Vesuvius eruption Based on this analysis and studies of modern volcanic eruptions, researchers concluded that a super ...

From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological discoveries.

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 ...

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 ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans ... by ash and pumice following the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 C.E. The composition recalls the ancient ...

The frieze has been attributed to the Second Style of Pompeian painting, dated between 40 and 30 B.C., indicating that by the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, this work was already about a ...

This ancient rural complex, located on Via Casa Salese, southeast of Pompeii, was buried under three meters of lapilli during the catastrophic eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.