Pompeii didn’t die in one instant—it collapsed in stages, hour by hour, as the sky turned into ash. At first, people watched the eruption like it was distant trouble, not the end of the world. Then ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins, the directors of the famous site said ...

If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands ...