An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79, officials ...

The only known case of a human brain being turned to glass, that of a man caught in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius at the Roman town of Herculaneum near Pompeii, has been solved. The man's brain ...

Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass - Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first ...

found perfectly preserved in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. For a time this artwork could only be accessed with a special permit for men with 'proven morality'. Now open to the public ...

The saga of the Herculaneum scrolls goes back nearly 2,000 years when the Italian settlements of Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Stabiae and Herculaneum were destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption of AD ...

This is one reason why archeological sites like the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are so important: they preserve the living spaces, shops, tools, and graffiti of the common people that would ...

By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption, bodies of the ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.