Pompeii

Discoveries The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks

Sanidine crystals buried with Pompeii turned a Roman catastrophe into a precision test for dating volcanoes and Earth’s past.

Global Good Mount Vesuvius’s 79 A.D. eruption was far more devastating than imagined

Discoveries Pompeii DNA study shatters myths about their ancient lives