Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new ...

The Vesuvius national park authority in Naples, Italy, has announced it will be closing access to the live volcano on Saturday, ahead of Napoli’s potential title-winning game on Sunday.

The last time Mount Vesuvius erupted was in 1944, shortly before the end of World War 2, when 26 Italians were killed and almost 12,000 were displaced.. Though the volcano has lain quite still ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, ... Volcanic debris “poured across the land,” wrote the Roman lawyer Pliny the Younger, ...

The heat and volcanic ash from Vesuvius destroyed the town and preserved the scrolls, but in an unreadable state, turning them into charred fragile blocks that disintegrate if unrolled physically.

The history of Mt. Vesuvius erupting in 79 CE is well-known, but since more than 10,000 years have passed, the volcano has been considered dormant since 1944. This means that the volcano hasn t ...

Vesuvius Volcano Ash Cloud Cooked Roman Man's Brain Into Glass Fossil. Published Feb 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM EST. By . Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K., from ...

Read the paper: Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE. The brain of a man who died nearly 2000 years ago was turned to glass by extreme conditions ...