Francesco Sirano, director of the excavations, near the skeleton of the last person who was trying to escape from Herculaneum during the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius.Marco Cantile/LightRocket via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeletal remains of a man whose flesh disintegrated in the heat from Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago has offered a new ...

Archaeologists released haunting images Wednesday of the skeletal remains of a man who was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The man, discovered in October and believed ...

In the first excavations of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum since the 1980s, archaeologists have brought to light the skeleton and personal effects of the so-called “last fugitive” who was ...

A red-coated skeleton got buried under the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the city of Herculaneum in 79 AD. More than 300 victims were found piled in boat sheds in excavations in the 1980s and ’90s.

It's been more than 2,000 years since Mount Vesuvius buried the ancient cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii in ash. But after decades, even two centuries of excavation, new discoveries are being found.

Experts have dated the nearly 2,000-year-old bones to 79 AD - the ill-fated year Mount Vesuvius smothered Pompeii under a blanket of ash and lava. Just to the west of the destroyed city lies the ...

Archaeologists have been able to pinpoint the exact temperature at which a man 'vaporised' as he fled the erupting volcano after rare find A Roman man's body was “vaporised instantly” by temperatures ...

The skeletal remains of a man whose flesh disintegrated in the heat from Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago has offered a new glimpse into one of history’s most famous volcanic eruptions.