A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped archaeologists unravel the sequence of events that wiped out Pompeii and ...

Pompeii casts showing victims in heavy wool clothes prompt researchers to question the long-accepted August timing of the AD ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

(Reuters) - It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark ...

A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas probably overcame a young man who was killed during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Temperatures in the gas cloud ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...

The story of Pompeii is one that most people know. Pompeii, a thriving Roman city in what is now Southern Italy, was dramatically buried in ash during a devastating eruption from nearby Mount Vesuvius ...

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 ...