This fiery shower would have crushed buildings and residents in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other nearby settlements – but some would have survived at this point by taking shelter. However ...

Heartbreakingly, if they had left Pompeii immediately after the eruption, they could have survived. A lesson from history that none of us are immune to the forces of nature and, sometimes ...

Nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, killing many Pompeii residents and famously freezing them in place. This skeleton appears to be from a man who survived the initial explosion and was ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.