A laid-back guide leads us through amphitheaters and frescoed villas in Pompeii before a white-knuckle taxi sprint back to ...

A study found some Pompeii victims died while wearing wool, complicating the eruption date of Mount Vesuvius, long believed ...

Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly ...

While many of us here on the east coast were hit with varying degrees of earth shaking Tuesday, today marks the anniversary of a much worse natural disaster: the day Mount Vesuvius exploded. On August ...

It was probably a day like many others for the inhabitants of the Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum near the Bay of Naples. They were accustomed to the periodic belching of the great Vesuvius ...

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

The great West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd used to stand on the Senate floor and quote the likes of Pliny the Elder, a nostalgically refreshing gust of scholarship in an age when today’s Senate majority ...

There are 2,786 visitors and tourists who climbed to the summit of Vesuvius on May 1st. A flattering result, also due to the beautiful weather. 'Even on May 1st, the Vesuvius Crater recorded a very ...