Mount Vesuvius delivered a deadly one-two-three punch to Pompeii in A.D. 79 ... Because both skeletons were found on top of the pumice lapilli - the ash and stone mix that had rained from the ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii can be added to that list. This huge Italian tourist venue has boomed in popularity, ...

The destruction of Pompeii has so far been attributed to ... During the eruption, pumice lapilli—small volcanic rock and ash particles—rained down on the city for hours, forcing people to ...

It's extraordinary to think that one-third of the city buried under pumice and ash has yet ... ash and pea-sized stones, known as lapilli, that smothered Pompeii during the two catastrophic ...

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius experienced one of its most significant eruptions, burying the Roman city of Pompeii and its inhabitants under a thick layer of small stones and ash known as lapilli.

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum ... toward Nola and Avellino, where pumice and lapilli deposits piled up as high as nine feet (three meters) near the volcano in several ...

The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history. The ash and pumice that rained down preserved traces of the dying where they ...