Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a thousand years later. Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and ...

Fragile’ Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers at 20,000 to protect the site - Nearly four million people visited the main ...

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D ... but volunteer and former board chair David Long is ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...