A film director who survived both 9/11 in New York and the fires here in L.A. looks back on the similarities — and very real differences — between the two catastrophes, and what can be learned from ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

This article is brought to you by National Museum of Australia. Every 15 minutes at the National Museum of Australia’s Pompeii exhibition, lights flicker and rumbling sounds. The excitement and nerves ...

They preserved in volcanic ash near the Casarzano stream, which is near the city of Nocera Inferiore, about 8 miles (13 km) east of Pompeii ... the fugitives likely survived, but the ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

Seen from above, the damage to the fire-ravaged neighborhoods of Altadena, California, appears endless and unsparing. (Alice Li/TWP) Warning: This graphic requires ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Joseph Lynskey was shoved into the path of an oncoming train and survived. On Monday, he thanked the firefighters who rescued him. By Katherine Rosman Joseph Lynskey had never spent much time in a ...

A man who was in a 1982 plane crash over the Potomac River in Washington DC recalled how he survived the crash that took 78 lives after a similar tragedy happened last week in the same river.

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 13 years, which has given me a front row seat for the DSLR to mirrorless transition, the ...