When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that ...
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE. It also left scientists something unusually valuable: volcanic rock ...
Thanks to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, archaeologists now have access to the most exact volcanic eruption dating ...
On the morning of August 24, 79 AD — or possibly October 24, as we’ll soon discover — nearly 20,000 people in Pompeii woke up to what seemed like an ordinary day. By nightfall, their city had ceased ...