Although it has been frozen in time for nearly 2,000 years, the ancient ruins of Pompeii – the Roman town destroyed by the ...

The Legacy. Rebuild the ancient city and make critical decisions that will determine its future in this captivating game.

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

This summer’s paper dated the presence of H. floresiensis back to 700,000 years ago. The team estimated that the ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

The nymphaeum is a highlight of the exhibition. While, indeed, the eruption of Vesuvius itself immortalised Pompeii as the “city of the dead”, Withycombe hopes the beauty and intricacy of a ...

Included in the exhibition are reconstructions of streets and houses in Pompeii as well as replica casts of those who perished in the eruption, including three adults, a young child and a dog.

The tragic story of Pompeii, the Roman city buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, has captured public imagination since its rediscovery and excavation in the late 16th century.

If there's no magma ocean, where does the 'melt' come from that emerges from the volcanoes as lava? Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 87,000 people were being evacuated in a central Philippine region Tuesday a day after a volcano briefly erupted with a towering ash plume and superhot streams of ...

The latest eruption of Mount Kanlaon on central Negros island did not cause any immediate casualties, but the alert level was raised one level, indicating further and more explosive eruptions may ...