How was Pompeii destroyed? On August 4, in the year 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in human history. It shot stone, ash and volcanic gases as high as 21 ...

Pompeii, which lies 14 miles southeast of Naples, was once a buzzing city with some 15,000 residents before the eruption destroyed it on August 24, 79 AD. The natural disaster is thought to have ...

Pompeii is an ancient Roman city that was buried by volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and largely remained hidden for centuries before it was officially rediscovered in ...

not unlike the human bodies entombed at Pompeii in Italy by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. We scanned the specimens with X-rays to reveal and reconstruct the exquisite anatomy in high ...

Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. Experts say the newly discovered ...

As I saw the images—the first time in 2,000 years that anyone had laid eyes on them—I felt a great surge of emotion, especially because they remain only yours for a few moments before they are ...

During an ongoing archaeological excavation of more than 13,000 rooms in a Pompeii archeological park—a location preserved by the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD—researchers found one room ...

Children’s sketches depicting violent scenes of gladiators and hunters battling animals have been uncovered at the archaeological park of Pompeii ... erupted in 79 AD, were found on the walls ...

A multi-institutional team of archaeologists, chemists and environmental scientists using portable X-ray fluorescence on victims of the Pompeii eruption in 79 AD finds that they likely died of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy. The Italian ...