VICTIMS of the 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption died when extreme heat caused their blood to boil and their heads to explode, experts say. Researchers said some of the victims who died were trapped in ...

RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence to help them decipher a 2,000-year-old scroll unearthed from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79CE, burying a library of ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a ...

In the popular imagination, the volcanic eruption that buried the ancient city of Pompeii alive, in just 25 hours, is often depicted as an apocalypse with no survivors. Popular TV shows like 'Doctor ...