Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of an ancient painter.” ...

Hundreds of artifacts found amid the destruction after the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 are housed at the museum about 16 miles from the archaeological site of Pompeii.

This summer, Mount Etna erupted dramatically enough for sunbathers on Sicilian beaches to turn their gaze from each other's bottoms to the smoking cone, at least for a second or two. Still, though, ...

A fitting geographic pair, the varied semi-precious stones set in the bracelet were collected around Mount Vesuvius. It also dates back to the 1820s. Det Danske Kongehus Instagram still/ fair use ...

A once renowned hero turns into a violent tyrant, and an empire falls into decline. A Liberation Army is rising up in an act of rebellion against an oppressive rule. One by one the 108 stars of ...

A unique, dark-colored organic glass found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption likely formed when the person was killed by an extremely ...

A rare and haunting discovery inside the skull of a Roman man who perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has revealed his brain was transformed into glass—fossilised by an intense surge of ...

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass; here's how it happened The researchers conducted an extensive analysis that confirmed the glass nature of the fragments and revealed their ...

Pier Paolo Petrone In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the smaller town of Herculaneum under deadly layers of volcanic ash, pumice and ...

A team of Italian and German scientists recently determined how the brain of a victim of Mount Vesuvius’s 79 CE eruption managed to be preserved through its conversion into organic glass.

By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s ...