Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study
Research argues tremors occurred as Vesuvius erupted in AD79, causing buildings to collapse on to people Victims who perished in Pompeii after the devastating AD79...
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Remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago found in central France
Archaeologists trying to determine whether animals were killed in battle or buried as part of a ritual French archaeologists have uncovered nine large graves containing...
Video of sun’s surface captures solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface The sun’s otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and...
Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins
‘Black room’ with frescoes inspired by Trojan war described as one of most striking discoveries ever made at site in southern Italy A banquet room...
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals Shortly after Charles Darwin published his magnum opus, The Origin...
EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants
CAP scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, drives ‘perverse outcomes for a food transition’, says study The EU has made polluting...
‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side-effects
The 62-year-old, from Germany said he had the large number of vaccines for ‘private reasons’, researchers said A “hypervaccinated” German man who reportedly received 217...
Archaeologists find Pompeii fresco depicting Greek mythological siblings
Phrixus and Helle are depicted in vibrant colours with exquisite artistry in remarkable discovery In a remarkable discovery at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii,...
Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’
Structure stretches for almost a kilometre off coast of Germany and may have once stood by a lake A stone age wall discovered beneath the...
‘No-one should be dying after a shoulder pain from golf’: death of Briton raises fresh questions about drug Nolotil
The controversial painkiller is being cited in a growing number of deaths in Spain despite warnings about dangerous side-effects On an October evening last year,...
