Scene of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE contains a construction site where unfinished walls, dry materials and tools have ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

Pompeii casts showing victims in heavy wool clothes prompt researchers to question the long-accepted August timing of the AD ...

Scientists have uncovered a construction site frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD at Pompeii, revealing ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...