When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., roughly 2,000 people were trapped in the ancient city of Pompeii. The victims who died in ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption ...

A little less than 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius became the antihero of the ancient world’s most well-known tragedy. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 20,000 people lived in Pompeii on the eve of the ...

The remains of those who became trapped by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius tell a story of tragic suffering, according to a ...

Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly when it ...

Pompei in Italien, known in English as Pompeii, ties the Marian sanctuary and the excavated Roman city of Pompeji together in ...

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Pia Kastenmeier has known Pompeii for over 20 years now. The archaeologist, who carries out research at the Max Planck Society ...