The destruction of Pompeii and the nearby coastal town of Herculaneum is undoubtedly history’s most storied natural disaster. The ancient Roman cities were buried under layers of volcanic rock ...

Since Herculaneum was closer to Mount Vesuvius than Pompeii, it experienced the wrath ... causing his brain to cool down quickly. He was then hit with pyroclastic flows, which were still hot ...

A unique fate Unlike Pompeii, Herculaneum had some time to respond ... in nature because it requires extremely hot temperatures to cool so rapidly that there is no time for crystallisation.

This is one reason why archeological sites like the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are so important: they preserve the living spaces, shops, tools, and graffiti of the common people that would ...

A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, the deaths were instantaneous. People didn't know what was happening to them," added Pier Paolo Petrone, the anthropologist who had excavated ...

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...

Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow through settlements such as Herculaneum, Oplontis, Pompeii and others.

No other place gives us such a sense of the ancient world as the narow streets of Pompeii and Herculaneum But what do these ruins really tell us How did the peope in the towns around Mt Vesuvius ...

Dr Richard Miles follows in the footsteps of the 18th century archaeologists who discovered Herculaneum... To visit the incredible sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a tourist is incredible ...