On May 18, 1980, the most powerful volcanic eruption in U.S. history occurred. Located in Washington State, Mount St. Helens blew its top, destroying every living and non-living thing within six ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, ... They still can’t agree on the day Vesuvius blew its top, ...

March 1944: A cloud of ash hangs over Vesuvius during its worst eruption in more than 70 years. In the foreground is the city of Naples. The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were destroyed ...

Mount Vesuvius blew its top in 79 CE, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice, famously preserving victims that capture their final moments.

Excavations found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed ...

An American tourist survived a fall into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, Italy's famed volcano, as he scrambled to retrieve his phone, The Washington Post said in a report. The incident took place ...

From animation students to seasoned vets, Annecy attendees fell in love with Warner Bros.'s "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie." ...

The ash cloud that burst out of Mount Vesuvius was, at its core hot, heavy and deadly. "It's like a landslide. That material is able to knock down houses," Giordano said.

A U.S tourist fell into the Mount Vesuvius volcano in Italy after taking a forbidden route to its summit. The 23-year-old had been on a visit to the volcano with relatives on July 9 when the ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...