Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans still survive, in some form, thanks to their ...

Pompeii casts showing victims in heavy wool clothes prompt researchers to question the long-accepted August timing of the AD ...

Vesuvius’s fair value estimate has inched up from 4.39 to 4.57, as recent Street research has turned more constructive on the company’s ability to sustain revenue growth. At the same time, a slightly ...

An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano's crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the ...

Mount Vesuvius is most famous for erupting in 79 AD and burying the surrounding area in ash, something depicted this month on screens in Pompeii. But Mount Vesuvius isn’t quiet today. In fact, many ...

Since last week, Mount Vesuvius has been engulfed by large clouds of smoke, coming not from the volcano, but from a series of wildfires along its slopes. The fires are believed to be mostly ...

While Vesuvius plc (LON:VSVS) might not be the most widely known stock at the moment, it led the LSE gainers with a relatively large price hike in the past couple of weeks. As a stock with high ...

THE VICTIMS of the volcanic disaster that destroyed Pompeii might have suffered an even worse death than most people realise. A study of residue on skeletons found that the people unlucky enough to be ...

Paintng of Vesuvius (1774) by Joseph Wright of Derby. Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood ...

For an update of the find, suggesting that the first proposed scenario was wrong, read Kristina Killgrove's story. The first human remains in Pompeii were discovered in April 1748. In the following ...