In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Before its name became synonymous with tragedy, Pompeii was something of a playground for the Roman elite. Stone-paved roads connected shops, restaurants, bathhouses, brothels, and even an arena ...

You've probably heard of Pompeii. That long-lost, ancient city, destroyed by one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions ...

It’s hard to imagine what you might do if a Pompeii-esque disaster were to strike – particularly if you had never heard the word 'volcano' and had no idea what an eruption could do. And yet, despite ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

Within two days Pompeii had vanished ... that entertainment has involved wrangling over pretty much every facet of the disaster. They still can’t agree on the day Vesuvius blew its top, the ...

director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The tragedy sees Dionysus descend on Thebes in a fury, before whipping up its inhabitants into an ecstatic frenzy as revenge for some slander ...

Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow through settlements such as Herculaneum, Oplontis, Pompeii and others.