Can we identify the survivors of Mount Vesuvius’s devastating volcanic eruption in 79 CE? The second episode of the ...

A three-part PBS documentary explores the revelatory recent excavations of the ancient Italian city buried by the eruption of ...

Archaeologist and author Rubén Montoya reviews the history of the famous location razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a part of a Roman villa built before ... unlike Pompeii, where the thick layers of volcanic ...

It is thought the paintings were completed just before the volcanic eruption (Picture: Reuters) After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell ...

Scrolls cocooned in volcanic ash that consumed the Roman city of Pompeii have been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years. Using AI researchers were able to discern some meaning from the ...

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 ...

The two skeletons were found in the insula of the Casti Amanti, beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material. (Pompeii Archeological Park via AP) MILAN (AP) — The ...

An area of southern Italy near Naples has been experiencing a surge in seismic activity this week. Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean ...

mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth. The residents of Pompeii include Diomed, a common upstart merchant whose self-made ...