When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it didn’t just wipe out entire Roman towns and traumatize generations; it also gave us an unexpected scientific gift. After all this time, scientists are still ...

Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for a nearly 2,000-year-old volcanic event to just 13 years. The new ...

An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets. Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder—he provided enough ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Scientists have previously "unrolled" papyrus scrolls burned in the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius ...

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In the days leading up to Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD 79, the people of Pompeii went about their daily routines, much as they would any other week. Although tremors (which were not uncommon across ...