Across history, some of the world’s most advanced cities have vanished beneath ash, mud, water, and sediment. Unlike cities destroyed by war, these were overwhelmed by forces far beyond human control, ...

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last movements. Mount Vesuvius erupted in late August, in the sticky heat of a ...

Two cities steeped in history came together at the Mansion House last week as Dublin and Pompei signed a new […] ...

EXCLUSIVE: Director Gianfranco Rosi’s award-winning documentary Pompei: Below the Clouds will be coming to U.S. theaters and to MUBI’s streaming platform in March. The film, shot in lustrous black and ...

Congolese authorities and a civil society group say they found mass graves in an area of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) -- 13 decomposing bodies and 17 boxes of cremated remains were allegedly found in a disturbing discovery inside an unlicensed funeral home in Westchester County. The ...

I explore historical cases where bodies were preserved only as skeletal remains. 1971 war bombshell: Nixon assured China of US support if India was attacked, unsealed Watergate files reveal Meet Moya: ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final ...