Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments.

The first permanent exhibition of Pompeii’s historic casts is now on display in Italy, paying homage to those who were brutally killed after being engulfed by an inundation of volcanic ash. The ...

Human brain turned to glass by ash cloud from Vesuvius By Michael Franco February 28, 2025 This piece of organic glass was found inside the brain of a man from ancient Rome who was killed in the Mount ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...

A 1775 design for a mechanical Mount Vesuvius eruption device has finally been built, recreating an eighteenth-century volcanic spectacle.

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Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a variety of ways, including drying, freezing and tanning. Some preserved brains even resemble soap. But now they've found something ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists. The national fire service said it ...