Late in the year 79 CE, the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum would have found this question extremely pressing. When the ...
The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological evidence tells us. The ancient city of Herculanum was destroyed by the ...
More than 1,900 years after Mount Vesuvius buried this Roman city in ash and pumice, researchers have used artificial ...