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 ...

As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map. It was ...

Naples officials ... national park. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its violent eruption in A.D. 79., which devastated the Roman city of Pompeii and buried it in ash. The volcano has not erupted ...

Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to digitally unroll many more.

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...