Amid the unearthed sculptures and grand artwork that display the affluence of the once-grand city of Pompeii before its ...

The scroll was buried under layers of volcanic ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD [via the Guardian]. A passage deciphered from the scroll shows that the philosopher spent his last ...

The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to ...

the local white wine whose grapes draw on Vesuvius's rich soil to produce their intense taste. Streams of tourists clamber up the steep path to the crater, oohing at the postcard-perfect vistas in ...

Researchers recently discovered bloodshed-themed stick-figure sketches in a cluster of houses in the doomed ancient city ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of more than 200 survivors from the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that swallowed up the Roman city of Pompeii in 79AD. University of Miami professor ...

In Naples, Mount Vesuvius is more than just a volcano. Neapolitans like to say that they live “all’ombra” (in the shadow of) ...

As far as volcano tourism goes travellers tend to fall into two camps: those who stay clear and those who want to get closer. Volcano tourism has been increasing since British businessman Thomas ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities ...

A tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian police said ...