Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

Mademoiselle Nobs was actually the Meddle song Seamus, which originally featured Humble Pie guitarist/vocalist Steve Marriott’s pet collie howling along to a slow blues, but now with an Afghan hound ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ... was essentially wiped off the map. It was rediscovered in the late ...

The brain of a victim caught up in the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 1,000 years ... accident that wiped them off the ancient Roman maps - gave historians a fascinating glimpse into ...

this ancient Roman town was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD. Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum was ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

Witness the molten flows of Kīlauea in Hawaii, the historical eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, and the smoldering beauty of Sakurajima in Japan. Marvel at the dramatic Taal Volcano in the ...

Water and volcanic ash combined to produce devastating mudflows that wiped the entire town of Armero off the map. By then Chouet had developed ... about to explode" but no one had heard the warning.