Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists. The national fire service said it ...

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a variety of ways, including drying, freezing and tanning. Some preserved brains even resemble soap. But now they've found something ...