Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Romans 'World's most difficult jigsaw puzzle': ... so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, ... Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more.

Mount Vesuvius turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted 2,000 years ago Jasper King Published February 28, 2025 5:56pm Updated February 28, 2025 5:56pm ...

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass after super-hot ash cloud. A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even larger outburst, triggering a masse exodus from the disaster zone.

Two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD were found in recent archaeological excavations of Pompeii. One was found on a bed, holding a small treasure of gold, bronze and silver coins ...

A beach buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago just reopened. The Herculaneum archaeological park in Ercolano also contains the remains of 330 people who died fleeing the volcano ...

The last time Mount Vesuvius erupted was in 1944, shortly before the end of World War 2, when 26 Italians were killed and almost 12,000 were displaced.. Though the volcano has lain quite still ...

The discovery of the frescoes come just weeks after three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the Vesuvius eruption.