Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...

Pumice stones spewed from an undersea volcano that have fouled coasts in Okinawa Prefecture have apparently made a U-turn and could reach the Izu island chain within days, a research institute’s ...

An uptick in seismic activity on the volcanic island of Santorini has raised concerns about a potential eruption.

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Not in this case. The skeletons' final resting place, a bumpy bed of volcanic rock covered by pumice, provided a precise geologic time stamp for the moment of death. All that was required was a ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Archaeologists uncover a lavish private bathhouse in Pompeii, revealing the city's opulence and the tragic final moments of ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.

A budding islet created by the eruption of an underwater volcano appears to now be fully submerged due to wave erosion of the lava mass. The Asahi Shimbun’s Asuka light aircraft on Jan.

Now that outgoing President Joe Biden has formally designated the Sattitla National Monument, a process to determine how it will be managed will begin.