The Vesuvius national park authority in Naples, Italy, has announced it will be closing access to the live volcano on Saturday, ahead of Napoli’s potential title-winning game on Sunday.

Vesuvius eruption: Scientists map out destruction with 200,000 people living in red zone Experts have mapped out evacuation plans if ever there is another huge eruption at Mount Vesuvius.

Herculaneum beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius reopens centuries later The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 ... Its location on Italy's west coast and mild climate made it a ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud.. This is the horrific revelation of an ...

On March 17, 1944, Mount Vesuvius erupted. For more than a week it hurled rock, spewed gases and sent an 8-foot wall of lava rolling down the mountainside. “The sound was exactly like artillery ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow.

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the ...

U.S. tourist falls into crater of Mount Vesuvius, is rescued The tourist and relatives were cited by local police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater, ...

It’s hard to look at the casts of people — frozen in contortions of agony as ash rained down from Mount Vesuvius on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. — and not think of the tragic deaths on Maui.