By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption, bodies of the ...
Experience the ancient city’s destruction and rebirth in this immersive exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.
Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.
The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...
Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...
Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the most significant ...
The iconic Greek holiday island is literally shaking, and residents are escaping while they can.
Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials in tombs covered with tuff slabs, some engraved with decorations.
The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.