Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Pompeii was famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ... Although the precise location of his resting place isn't known to be documented, the researchers think this villa ...

VICTIMS of the 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption died when extreme heat caused their blood to boil and their heads to explode, experts say. Researchers said some of the victims who died were trapped in ...

Researchers have unearthed evidence that the inhabitants of Herculaneum were subjected to the full force of ‘pyroclastic currents’—a lethal mixture of gas and volcanic particles that descended upon ...

The winners of a contest called the Vesuvius Challenge trained their machine-learning algorithms on scans of the rolled-up papyrus. Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities ...

Specific findings at the site, buried by multiple eruptions of Mount ... of Vesuvius, famously the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, were heavily damaged, but this villa is located ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Mount Vesuvius that provides fascinating ... have been used to heat an important villa, located in a region with magical associations." ...

The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius ... eruption of Vesuvius in the fifth century, and its buried ruins were discovered in 1929. They were identified as the possible location of ...

A papyrus scroll that was buried under metres of volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago may have revealed how Plato, one of the fathers of western thought, spent his final ...