Geologists have determined why — unlike in the neighbouring town of Pompeii — the inhabitants of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum were not well-preserved by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...
Pompeii near Naples, Italy, is known for being buried underground by pyroclastic flows caused by the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Professor Steven Tuck of the University of Miami has ...
When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared. But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight for ...
Researchers now think they understand what happened during those 32 hours of hell. The ground-breaking new study suggests there was a five-hour window when residents could have escaped - but were too ...
HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the deadliest ...
Archaeologists have revealed the brain of a man killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago turned to glass in the 510C heat from an ash cloud. The glass-like substance was found ...
YAMAGUCHI—An eruption of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture 90,000 years ago created a pyroclastic flow that traveled 170 kilometers north to the Sabagawa river here, the longest such distance recorded ...
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