In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

Incredibly 'modern' word discovered inside ancient Mount Vesuvius buried scroll Ancient ... Archaeologists believe it is a ...

Mount Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc, a chain of volcanoes formed along the collision boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. Its last major eruption concluded ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum.

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD. In 2020, the researchers found the black ...

Penn. Woman Gored by a Bison at Yellowstone National Park in Third Recent Attack At its highest peak, Mount Vesuvius is 1,277 meters (4,190 feet) tall, according to the Vesuvius National Park website.

That’s what happened almost 2000 years ago in Italy, when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79AD. But the cloud of hot ash that buried Pompeii, instantly destroying it, also preserved the city ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening ... Volcanoes are usually found along the boundaries of tectonic plates. Constructive plate boundaries ...