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

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

The baths excavated at the Roman villa make up "one of the largest private thermal complexes" found so far in the ancient ...

While much of the exhibition focuses on life in Pompeii before the eruption wiped out the city, it also includes a dramatic recreation of the disaster itself. “It starts with a low rumble ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October ... crushing buildings and residents in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other nearby settlements. For the next 17 hours, the continuous fall of pumice ...

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 ...

“[This] is eerily similar to what happened 20 centuries ago in Pompeii: in 62 CE, the warning signs of the impending disaster appeared in the form of earthquakes; from 70 onwards, the rich left ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the scolding lava, ash, and gas that poured from its entrails converted the Roman city of Pompeii into a terrifying snapshot of death and destruction. Two ...