Scientists are keeping a close eye on three US volcanoes after their threat levels rose Thursday, suggesting eruptions may be ...

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 ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...

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

Scientists are predicting that a mile-long volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon ...

Five hours after the initial eruption ... Approximately half of the victims of Pompeii were found in the streets, buried by the volcanic layer generated by the pyroclastic flows.