The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

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“I’ve come down to watch visitors during the eruption many times,” says Dr Lily Withycombe, the lead coordinating curator for the exhibition, who has also worked as an archaeologist in Pompeii.

By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption, bodies of the ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Researchers now think they understand what happened during those 32 hours of hell. The ground-breaking new study suggests there was a five-hour window when residents could have escaped - but were ...

“Although Pompeii was of course smaller, and was more a resort for Romans than a major city, it’s exactly the same in the sense of being a place where people have the best of culture, of ...

Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption, which devastated the Roman city in 79CE, have revealed a detailed timeline of how the horror unfolded across 32 hours. The cataclysmic ...

The iconic Greek holiday island is literally shaking, and residents are escaping while they can.