A recent study, conducted by Dr. Sara Juengst and her colleagues and published in Latin American Antiquity, sheds light on a ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Garry Linnell is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists. He has won several awards for his writing, including a ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...

Police in Sicily are becoming increasingly frustrated with visitors flocking to watch Mount Etna’s ongoing eruptions and are ignoring warnings and restrictions. Since Europe’s most active ...

One intriguing skeleton, however, is a 35- to 50-year-old Hun woman with an elongated skull who was buried with gold earrings at the site of Pusztataskony in Hungary in the first half of the fifth ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands ahead of a ...

Kaiadas (also spelt ‘Caeadas’) was not a cliff at all, but a cavern in the slopes of Mount Taygetus in Sparta ... to confirm that at least some of them were chained criminals. One skull was found with ...

TOKYO: Japan's Seven & i Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has picked Bain Capital as its preferred buyer for a stake of its non-core assets, local media reported on ...

Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said that Europe would struggle to mount a force even in the tens of thousands. “European countries will ...

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with ...