Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains a well-preserved archaeological site, attracting tourists from ...

In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While ...

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue structures in unprecedented detail, offering new insights ...

One of the exhibits of “Pompeii: Inside a Lost City” at the ... these objects from where the mud and ash hardened over the voids left by the bodies. While they are instantly recognisable ...

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue ...

While digging the ground for a new vineyard, they encountered a layer of bedrock with a strange void. This contained ... even that of the victims of Pompeii. In our new study, we then examined ...

That disaster entombed Pompeii under ash, preserving everything from buildings to the haunting body casts of its residents, who perished in their final moments. These casts, created by filling voids ...

(c), (d) FE-SEM images detail spherical voids clustering and stepped fracture ... buried under ash by the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, alongside Pompeii. (Photo by EQRoy on ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting ...