Mount Vesuvius, the volcano responsible for the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD, remains one of the most ...

Across the bay of Naples from Pompeii, where thousands were incinerated by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, lies a hidden "super volcano" that could kill millions in a catastrophe many times worse ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

The extreme conditions produced by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD, caused a man's brain to turn to glass. The glass brain was found five years ago, and researchers have just ...

Read the paper: Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE ... extreme conditions during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Researchers studied the strange ...

Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano in continental Europe and is thought to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Every single resident died ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ... lava fragments coughed out by the volcano after the initial burst of ...

the team measured the thickness of the single layers over a 775-square-mile area around Mount Vesuvius. The deposits recorded dramatic, increasingly violent pulses from the volcano. At noon on Day ...