Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

Residents of Naples and its surrounding areas abandoned their homes and camped out in parks and cars after a 4.4 magnitude ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

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

NBC News’ Molly Hunter got a look at the new discoveries being unearthed in Pompeii, the former Roman city that was buried ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

The depiction of a Dionysiac mystery cult now serves as an “exceptional historical document,” allowing us a glimpse into one ...

An area of southern Italy near Naples has been experiencing a surge in seismic activity over the last few days. Campi Flegrei ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...