Is it safe to visit Naples and Pompeii? The Campi Flegrei lie around 20 kilometres from Naples. The southern Italian city has ...

When the first thunderous boom echoed across the plain of Campania, quickly followed by a blistering hail of volcanic rock ... "In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, the deaths ...

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

The emperor Nero is thought to have visited the southern Italian city of Pompeii in ... animals trapped by the eruption by pouring plaster into the hollows left in the volcanic debris by decayed ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in ... our list of the best Italy tours to view traveler ...

While most of Italy’s volcanoes have been dormant for at least 100 years ... it completely wiped out the Roman city of ...

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 ...

The W&M Department of Classical Studies offers a three-week intensive summer program in Ancient Roman Studies, emphasizing ...

A women’s prison near Naples has been evacuated as a precaution following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an ...