An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Three gladiator helmets "perfectly preserved" following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago are to go on ...

While they cannot be opened due to the carbonization and other damage, their secrets are not entirely lost thanks to modern ...

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.

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 ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.

An American tourist fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius in an attempt to retrieve his mobile phone over the weekend, Italian police told CNN on Monday.The 23-year-old man from Baltimore was ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.