A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Located about 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southeast of Naples in what’s now Italy’s Campania region, Pompeii was ...

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A bustling port city of close to 20,000 people, Pompeii was buried beneath 20 feet of ash and pumice, which preserved its ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for centuries.

On August 24, 79 A.D., the city of Pompeii, a thriving port of the Roman Empire, was frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, burying the city and its people. Remarkably ...

A bustling port city of close to 20,000 people, Pompeii was buried beneath 20 feet of ash and pumice, which preserved its contents (including glass objects, stored in cupboards) and left a record ...