Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.

Human brain turned to glass by ash cloud from Vesuvius By Michael Franco February 28, 2025 This piece of organic glass was found inside the brain of a man from ancient Rome who was killed in the Mount ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists. The national fire service said it ...

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

LONDON — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a variety of ways, including drying, freezing and tanning. Some preserved brains even resemble soap. But now they've found something ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

The Roman city of Pompeii was the site of one of Antiquity’s biggest tragedies. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in it in AD79. When the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupted, Pompeii (and most of its ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery among the ruins of Pompeii that reveals how the Romans built their lavish empire. The team uncovered a construction site, untouched by the eruption of Italy's ...