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 ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

At 8.05pm, the eruption finally ceased - but an earthquake may have killed any of Pompeii's survivors, another study concluded. After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the scolding lava, ash, and gas that poured from its entrails converted the Roman city of Pompeii into ... exactly how the eruption progressed and dragged ...

known as the "eruption column". From around 2pm, larger chunks of pumice - a porous volcanic rock - began to rain down. This is when Pompeii and its people started to be crushed, as slabs up to ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

You can sign up for upcoming Roman city builder Pompeii The Legacy's new playtest, giving you a historical alternative to Cities Skylines.