Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

An immersive new exhibition in Australia uses artifacts, sounds and projections to recreate the ancient Roman city ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.

Scientists have made a “once-in-a-century” discovery in Pompeii after unearthing a stunning ancient luxury spa with thermal baths and mosaic designs.

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

SCIENTISTS have made a “once in a lifetime” discovery in Pompeii after unearthing a stunning ancient luxury spa with thermal baths and stunning mosaic designs. The lavish private bath ...

The shock is magnified by the everyday context of the disaster. While unpacking a large bronze wine vessel from a crate at the exhibition center last week, Hoff described "Pompeii" as "one of the ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the most significant ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National ... The exhibition’s representation of a natural disaster that has reached timeless proportions has the potential to say a lot about the risks and ...

When Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the ash and rock that fell helped preserve many of Pompeii's buildings almost in their original state, as well as forming eerie shapes around the curled-up corpses of ...

"Elvis was a force of nature," the late Kris Kristofferson said, in a 2006 interview. Elvis' first single, released on the Memphis-based Sun label in 1954, caused a cultural "earthquake ...