I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials in tombs covered with tuff slabs, some engraved with decorations.

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 ...

Mount Vesuvius erupting over Pompeii and Hadrian’s Wall. The jazzy, foot-tapping song includes joining in with finger-clicking and quiet beat-box cymbal patterns. Its melody enables children to ...

No one could decipher them because they'd been burned and buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted about 2,000 years ago, leaving them charred and far too delicate to unroll. In fact, previous efforts ...