The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

On October 27, Elon Musk unveiled the first version of Grokipedia, an open-source encyclopedia that he pushed as an ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it unleashed a torrent of destruction that obliterated Pompeii and neighboring towns.

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...

In 553 AD, after nearly two decades of brutal war, the Ostrogothic Kingdom made its final stand against the Eastern Roman ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to ...

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

She returns to Naples on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 9, to kick off this season’s Author Spotlight Series for Friends of the ...