In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ancient Romans had pretty great teeth. Scientists are scanning the body casts of victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which is leading them to new revelations.

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Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

That’s what happened almost 2000 years ago in Italy, when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79AD ... of the casts from Herculaneum, a town even closer to Mount Vesuvius than Pompeii, is ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

What is the best way to experience Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii? “It’s the kind of ... of the fallen after Vesuvius’s eruption in 79AD, is a head trip, with a side-helping of Spinal Tap.