Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount ...

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

Police found a car with two victims inside —one dead from gunshot wounds and another who was hurt in an assault.

“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

In the shadow of Mt Vesuvius, Pompeii's buried wonders are still emerging. A newly found fresco offers a tantalising glimpse ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

The body disintegrated and left a void ... would use chains and maybe iron bars before the windows. We found examples of this in Pompeii, but it's not the case here. So, there must have been ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

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

Found at the newly-excavated House ... were killed instantly. As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate ...