Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., roughly 2,000 people were trapped in the ancient city of Pompeii. The victims who died in the disaster have inspired artworks, movies and TV shows, and today, ...

Archaeologists have discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before 79 C.E.—foreshadowing the devastation that would later entomb ...

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