Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

New evidence has led archaeologists to believe that people may have lived among the ruins of Pompeii following the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which wiped out the entire Roman city.

The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was the gravest natural disaster to strike Italy during the peak of the Roman Empire, killing more than a thousand people in nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala that made headlines worldwide in recent months. And ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...