while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...

It was AD 79 when the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under layers of ash during a two-day tempest. Today, the 66-hectare archaeological site offers visitors a snapshot of daily ...

Alissa Mittnik from the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied new DNA evidence from the Pompeii victims, disproving past ...

Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed ... material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies ...

Pliny, like the inhabitants of Herculaneum, Pompeii and the various other towns planted on Vesuvius’s foothills, had no idea that it was a volcano. And so, when it erupted, the great encyclopedist ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

Bakers used to be fined if their loaves were underweight so they added an extra loaf to every dozen, hence the term “Baker’s ...

Samah Naim peered out the window of her Somis kitchen in flip-flops and pajamas. Fire flew through chaparral and up the driveway, her driveway. She screamed. It was 9:22 a.m. Wednesday. The ...

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