It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how three settlements faced three distinct fates, reshaping our understanding of how ancient Romans lived and died.

For centuries, the destruction of Pompeii has been dated to August 24 in the year 79 CE, a figure drawn almost entirely from a single ancient source: the letters of Pliny the Younger, a Roman statesman who witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as a teenager and described it decades later in correspondence with the

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable until recently.

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in a new era for the study of the ancient world.

Pottery fired centuries after Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 points to something historians long dismissed: people came back. Ceramic production debris dated to the fourth and fifth centuries,

A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ancient Roman city.

The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. At points it’s elegiac and moving, at others it’s majestic and brutal

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