Aug. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British ...

One of the famous brothels in ancient Pompeii was called the Lupanare (Latin for wolf’s den). Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this was a two-story building built just years before the destruction of ...

If you're visiting southern Italy and planning a trip to Pompeii, there’s another ancient city you absolutely shouldn’t miss- Herculaneum. Tucked away on the Bay of Naples, this lesser-known ...

It lies dormant sometimes, the way volcanos do. Mount Vesuvius, remember, was still and inactive for a thousand years. The citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum believed for centuries that they’d heard ...

Today is Sunday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 2025 with 129 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and ...

Journey into the Vatican’s mysterious collection of rare Egyptian treasures, from scorpion goddesses to the powerful lion god of war, and discover how these relics survived alongside Christian ...

The Italian docmaker spent three years filming in and around Naples for this layered, rewarding study of modern living amid remnants of ancient history. The title stems from a famed Jean Cocteau quote ...

Vesuvius — the very name sounds ancient, rhythmically mythical, so tied into tales of a destroyed past that one almost forgets it’s still very much in the ordinary, existing present. The legendary ...

According to legend, travelers who remove artifacts from the historic Italian city are cursed to endure hardship. Many have even returned the stolen items years later ...

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to Thermopylae alone ...