The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonised by a ...

Scientists use artificial intelligence and human expertise to decipher ancient scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

So, all things considered, looking at a 50- or 100-year time horizon, is LA even viable as a place for human habitation ... even become the Pompeii of the future – a vast metropolis destroyed ...

An "eruption column" of rocky volcanic fragments and gas ... However, they do not contain human remains, suggesting that few of Pompeii’s residents remained alive. At 8.05pm, the eruption ...