The unique findings from the excavations at Akrotiri reveal an advanced civilization, which, along with the Minoan, was the ...

The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

They preserved in volcanic ash near the Casarzano ... prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption ...

The deadliest pyroclastic current struck at 7:07 am the morning after the eruption ... across - snaked from the volcano's crater and down the hillside, consuming Pompeii in a lethal cloud.

A "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in Pompeii after lying hidden for 2,000 years ... A third of the ancient city still remains hidden beneath volcanic ash, but this new excavation ...

But the volcano also does something else ... NARRATOR: With every new building brought into the light after 2,000 years of darkness, Pompeii is slowly giving up its secrets house by house ...

but just this month archaeologists uncovered one of the most luxurious we've seen in the ruins of Pompeii. Nearly 2,000 years after the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption destroyed this Italian city ...

The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

These volcanoes were similar to Mt ... The story is, perhaps, a bit simpler in Pompeii - or maybe we just know it better. After all, people were there to watch it happen and write about ...