Poseidon is one of the disaster films ever made in which the ship was destroyed with a star-studded cast. Titanic II is the ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets.

Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

In China There is an archaeological site that is often nicknamed “Chinese Pompeii“: it is the city of Sizhou, destroyed ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the most significant ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October ... crushing buildings and residents in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other nearby settlements. For the next 17 hours, the continuous fall of pumice ...