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 ...

It was late into the night when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago sent volcanic material over the beach ...

Resting in the shadow of the ominous Mount Vesuvius just outside of Naples ... While our guide did point out a few interesting facts, like that Pompeii had actually been covered up by ash and ...