In minutes, a once-beautiful city became a ghost town - now it’s a haven for dark tourism. Montserrat is a mountainous island ...

A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...

Victims at Pompeii wore heavy tunics and woollen cloaks as they fled rocky volcanic fragments and gas thrown into the air, ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the revelations of archaeology to understand what really happened here nearly 2000 years ...

Semeru volcano — the tallest volcano on Java at 3,676 meters — erupted on the afternoon of November 19, 2025, with pyroclastic flows racing at high speed more than 8.5 kilometers down its slopes, as ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

In the doomed city of Pompeii, the decadence and degeneracy of wealthy Roman aristocrats was legendary. At this elite mecca Rome’s rich and famous indulged themselves without restraint, shamelessly ...

Welcome back to The Deep Dive where we surprise and intrigue you with a brand-new timely topic explored every Tuesday. This week we’re taking a deep dive into the Roman city of Pompeii. August 24 ...