More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...

Hiking trails on Italy's Mount Vesuvius have been closed to the public as firefighters battle a massive blaze that erupted last week. The wildfire in Vesuvius National Park first broke out on August 5 ...

Mysterious damage patterns on a 2,000-year-old fortress are rewriting what we know about Roman firepower. If the ancient ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Catastrophic casting: Mount Vesuvius eruption victims feature in landmark Pompeii exhibition Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists. The national fire service said it ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists. The national fire service said it ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But ...