Mount Vesuvius, one of the world’s most infamous volcanoes, last erupted over 70 years ago, but what if it erupted again in 2021? This video explores the potential devastation and wide-reaching ...

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

Yellowstone is using a 53,000-pound vibrator truck to create custom-made earthquakes to study the supervolcano the park sits on. It’s a ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ... was essentially wiped off the map. It was rediscovered in the late ...

"It's a bit like 'out of sight, out of mind' in terms of understanding their danger, compared to more famous ones like Vesuvius ... if a volcano becomes more or less explosive when sea water in these ...

The brain of a victim caught up in the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 1,000 years ... accident that wiped them off the ancient Roman maps - gave historians a fascinating glimpse into ...

this ancient Roman town was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD. Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum was ...

The heat and volcanic ash from Vesuvius destroyed the town and preserved the scrolls, but in an unreadable state, turning them into charred fragile blocks that disintegrate if unrolled physically.

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...