(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption ...

Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered ... block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Ultimately, the home became their final resting ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount ...

The name comes from the same Mount Vesuvius eruption that leveled Pompeii. Gaius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, was nearby with his family in Misenum when the volcano erupted.

Towering above the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius looks peaceful—but not in tilt-shift! This ambient video reimagines the volcano, its crater, and the landscape below in a surreal, toy-like scale.

“The unique finding implies unique processes.” An aerial view of Mount Vesuvius reveals its gaping crater. The volcano's massive eruption in 79 A.D. destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii. Yet some ...

Researchers examining the remains of a man whose brain supposedly turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius said they likely know what ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted ... the ancient settlement was obliterated in 79AD when the volcano erupted, killing thousands and burying both under ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain ... under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum ...

The extreme conditions produced by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD, caused a man's brain to turn to glass. The glass brain was found five years ago, and researchers have just ...