We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ...

The museum’s current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished in the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.

MARIO LAPORTA/AFP via Getty Images These casts have since become symbols of Pompeii – heart-breaking freeze frames of families cowering in their homes, beggars praying to the heavens and merchants ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

These casts have been a feature of the history and the creative re-imagining of Pompeii since they were first made in the 1860s. They were initially regarded as scientific or archaeological ...

It dates to the first century B.C.E., more than 100 years before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E. and cast pumice and ash down upon Pompeii. “In 100 years’ time, today will be remembered as ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

Europe is full of ancient wonders, with archaeological sites that take you on a journey into the past. From the remains of ...