Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...

Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled-up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient Roman town, according to the organizers of the ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it covered the surrounding area in a deadly layer of volcanic ash, pumice and pyroclastic flow, ...

New research has uncovered several surprises about the last desperate moments of the citizens of the ancient city of Pompeii.

POMPEII, Italy (KMID/KPEJ) – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly ... (AP Photo/Lefteris ...

Among the inhabitants of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which disappeared after the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano, it ...

This fast-moving stream of hot gas and volcanic matter instantly enveloped their bodies ... the chance to better comprehend the lives and habits of the victims of the Vesuvius eruption." Gabriel ...