Barricaded at home. First, they tried to save themselves from the fury of Mount Vesuvius by placing a bed across the door to ...

The fourth victim was the Italian driver of the cable car ... The accident happened just a week after the cable car, which is ...

As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map. It was ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.

Its dramatic downfall due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is central to the exhibition. heise online visited the exhibition at the Obex in Oberhausen. At the heart of the exhibition are three im ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...

A satellite image of the Tonga eruption. Images: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens / Lauren Dauphin / CALIPSO data from NASA/CNES, MODIS and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS ...

In early October, 1971, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright set up shop in the haunting surrounds of a Roman amphitheatre in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. “Maybe we ...

A professor at the University of Kentucky used AI to digitally unwrap ancient scrolls. A computer science professor at the University of Kentucky led a successful effort to digitally unwrap ...

CBS News has obtained a list of 365 federal grant programs halted this week by the Justice Department, disrupting programs to help victims of hate crime and sex trafficking, children who've ...

The youngest victim of an attack on a festival, killed when a madman sped through a packed Canadian street fair, was just five years old, police revealed in the first disclosure about the victims.