To their uncomprehending minds, the calamity descending upon them must have seemed like the end of the world. Thousands of ... northeast of Vesuvius, discovered a human skeleton nested in the ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing ...

The Mount Vesuvius eruption had somehow turned the ... However, in no other case in the world have vitrified organic human or animal remains ever been found," Petrone added. Thousands of people ...