Questions remain about the final days of Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa at their home in New Mexico.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a nearly life-size fresco, or megalography, depicting the Dionysiac procession in an excavated banqueting room in Region IX.

Who knows? The illustrious ancient city, renowned for its refinement, was in fact the result of the genius of several peoples—including barbarians—who contributed to its splendor before Rome took ...

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

Inside a Lost City”, is an object lesson in the role that presentism plays in our contemporary understandings of the world, ...

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

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

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...

Legendary actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead at their Santa Fe home Wednesday. Authorities say they had been dead for “quite a while” before their bodies were ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...