Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of ...

Archaeologists found the victim holding a terracotta mortar, which they interpret as an improvised attempt to shield his head.

Based on recent findings highlighted in the E-journal of the Pompeii Excavations, a man who died fleeing the volcanic destruction carried a bag of tools that indicate he was an ancient Roman doctor, ...

The destruction of Pompeii is one of antiquity’s most famous disasters, but its exact date remains fiercely debated. From ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii Archaeological Park in southern Italy have identified one of the victims of the 79 A.D. Mount ...

Scientists used new techniques to analyze a case found next to the man, who died when Mount Vesuvius buried the Italian city ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military leader Pliny the Elder, new research finds. The jawbone associated with that ...

Catastrophic casting: Mount Vesuvius eruption victims feature in landmark Pompeii exhibition Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display ...