More than 1,900 years after Mount Vesuvius buried this Roman city in ash and pumice, researchers have used artificial ...

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

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 at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...

Now, researchers have found that the artefact one man clung onto in his last moments was an ancient “medical kit”. In a new study, archaeologists found a small case hidden among the remains of 13 ...

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, ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., life in Pompeii stopped in an instant. Streets were buried, homes collapsed, and thousands of people were trapped in a cloud of ash and heat. Over centuries, ...