Once Vesuvius erupted, there was no escape for the residents of Pompeii, whose last hours on earth were nothing short of ...

Two millennia on, researchers have finally recreated a blow-by-blow account of the disaster, revealing exactly how the ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption, which devastated the Roman ... Then, from 2pm, pumice, a rock formed when lava solidifies, rained down. The debris eventually measured ...

After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in ... They are more dangerous than lava because they travel faster, at speeds of around 450mph (700 km/h), and at ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure: a large bath-complex built ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.

An excavation in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in A.D. 70 ... bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed both the ...