The 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with a blast that had the thermal energy of 100,000 World War II-era atomic bombs. About 1950 years later, ...

Robert Harris' 2003 novel ‘Pompeii' has been published in a stunning new edition by The Folio Society. The acclaimed British novelist is noted for his works of historical fiction, more recently ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered ... entirely of Black women to have been deployed overseas during World War II, and it had served a critical function: clearing the backlog ...

Built between AD 688 and 691, the Dome of the Rock is at the centre of the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem ... Senso-ji Temple was actually destroyed by bombing in World War II, and what we see ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum.

It is the first ever evidence of a fossilised brain being found following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago (Picture: Reuters) Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s ...