Volcanology
Eruptions reconstructed from deposits, ruins, eyewitness accounts, instruments, and the science used to understand volcanic hazards.
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Investigations
The Cell Was Built to Hold a Man
When Mount Pelée destroyed Saint-Pierre in 1902, Louis-Auguste Cyparis survived inside a stone prison cell. The catastrophe also forced volcanology to learn what had killed the city.
They Thought the Books Were Charcoal
The Herculaneum scrolls survived Vesuvius as brittle carbon. In 2026, researchers virtually unwrapped and read one across its surviving length without physically opening it.