Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her» (Agatha Christie) Enzechetta, who was he? Ambrogio Nocerino known as Enzechetta is ...

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One moment, Pompeii was alive with trade and laughter. The next, it was frozen in ash - a Roman city caught in the grip of nature’s fury.

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

A famous natural disaster Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79. It buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a rapidly moving flow of rock and ash called a pyroclastic flow. Many bodies ...

A young man was lying in 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. That is the theory put forward by ...

"When archaeologists excavated the ancient city of Herculaneum in south-western Italy, which had been buried under volcanic ash and lava since 79 CE, they found two small loaves, each with a cross ...

Capri began to regain its popularity in the 1750s, when excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman towns buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, made Naples a key stop on the ...

How can you not need to catch your breath at a still-standing arch that has been excavated from thousands of tons of debris that buried it after a volcano ... It was found in the nearby city of ...