When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a public building, met his demise in a flash of superheated ash. But his brain ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

Beyond determined decadence, Cate White’s work points to free love’s runoff from and its feints to cross-gender equality.

Candace Chapman Scott, a former mortuary worker, pleaded guilty in federal court last year to charges that she sold 24 boxes ...

LAWRENCVILLE, GA — There is new information on skeletal remains that were found in Gwinnett County earlier this month. The ...

There’s been an update in the skeletal remains found off of State Route 316 in Lawrenceville last Monday, Feb. 10. Personnel ...

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

Ancient relics from pre-Pharoah times, 100-million-year-old dinosaur fossils and a wide collection of human skulls only begin to scratch the surface of the peculiar and rare items the curator has been ...

A search for scrap metal in Texas took a gruesome turn when the searcher discovered a cooler containing what appears to be a human skull, according to Houston police and local news reports.

U.S. Department of Agriculture photo A human skull found in remote southwestern North Carolina has been identified as the remains of a 35-year-old man who was never considered missing ...