Hiking this historic European volcano is sure to rock your world, as you will feel the active giant's power while ascending ...

Life within the city was snuffed out as people and buildings were smothered with a thick layer of volcanic debris that ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it ...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash ...

The destruction of Gaza’s historical, cultural and religious sites is part of an effort to wipe the Palestinian people out of ...

and knowledge about Pompeii – and the wider study of the ancient world – improved no end. Instead of relying on contemporary accounts of the eruption such as those of Roman writer Pliny the ...

A team of archaeologists uncovered three bronze shields and a bronze helmet that were buried under more than 20 feet of ...

These sites range from ancient Roman buildings to Renaissance art, such as the Colosseum in Rome, the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the historic centres of Florence and Venice. China comes ...

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 ...

but the treasures of better-known Pompeii stole the limelight. By the early 20th century, however, slum housing in Resina – the town that sat right over the ruins of Herculaneum – had been cleared, ...