In the ancient city of Pompeii, which was preserved under a blanket of ash and smoke from the Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption in 79 A.D., archaeologists have uncovered a banquet room decorated with ...

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

Earthquake this week finally jolts authorities into action after decades of runaway construction puts half a million people ...

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

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

BRITS heading to Italy have been issued with new travel advice after the country was hit by its “strongest earthquake in 40 years” right next to a volcano The Foreign Office has updated its advice ...

The active volcano near Naples, Italy is famous for destroying several cities including Pompeii, spilling molten for two days and launching ash, gas, and rocks for almost 21 miles. Residents of ...

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

At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness. After ...

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 ...

Photo: Roberta Prisco sits beside a fresco depicting what might be an ancestor of pizza. Photo courtesy of © Lion ...

The tiles marry tradition and modernity, with the terracotta-style pieces housing solar photovoltaic cells. Read more at ...