Vesuvius shaped life in the Bay of Naples for millennia. Its history and civil protection plans show how communities balance ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...

It wasn’t until the 18th century that Pompeii and the nearby city of Herculaneum were unearthed with ancient artifacts, ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the ...

A young Roman man was sleeping peacefully in his bed one night nearly 2,000 years ago, when a cloud of scorching-hot ash descended from the top of the erupting Mount Vesuvius to smother him and turn ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have become acclimatized to uncovering the petrified remains of people who lost their lives in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. However, these two bodies provide ...

Volcano tourism isn’t new. After all, getting closer to a violent volcanic eruption didn’t work out too well at Pompeii in 79 A.D. for Pliny the Elder. He sailed across the bay to rescue friends but ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on Tuesday. Featuring a man reclining on a couch being attended to by a scantily ...