The eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE. It also left scientists something unusually valuable: volcanic rock ...
A little less than 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius became the antihero of the ancient world’s most well-known tragedy. The infamous explosion covered Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic debris, ...
Thirty years ago a teenage boy, traveling abroad and without parents for the first time, came upon a scene of staggering destruction. At Pompeii, when Tom Hiddleston saw the casts of the bodies killed ...