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

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

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

More recently, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupted in 1985, killing around 25,000 people. Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis ...

From around 2pm, larger chunks of pumice - a porous volcanic rock - began to rain down. This is when Pompeii and its people started to be crushed, as slabs up to nine feet thick crashed onto the ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii […] ...

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

With rooms for cold, hot, warm baths, and a plunge room, this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at Pompeii. After a nearly two-year excavation, archaeologists also discovered ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...