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

The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate ...

The museum, which is reachable only by the newly reopened Pacific Coast Highway, will be open limited hours from 10 a.m. to 5 ...

In 1824, the island of Psara faced a brutal invasion by Ottoman forces. The islanders, known as Psariots, mounted a fierce ...

A LEGACY OF DISASTERS. Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe since 79 A.D., when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. After serious excavations began ...

Someone who knows all three men calls the trio “the avengers”. He reckons they will have huge additional sums at their ...

A good many years ago, I had my first encounter with pizza, when one of my college friends suggested we eat at an Italian ...

Two of the locals working there that day were musicians, one strumming a guitar and the other on accordion, who sang ...

The eruption alert was raised Tuesday to the highest level and the danger zone where people are recommended to leave was ...

Indonesia’s Geology Agency said in a statement it recorded the volcano unleashing 10,000 meters (about 32,800 feet) of thick ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Tuesday, spewing a towering ash cloud 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) high, the country's volcanology agency said.