The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

Now grapegrowing and winemaking will return to the city in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius, thanks to a partnership between the Pompeii Archaeological Park and the Tenute Capaldo Group winemaking firm. For ...

The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

ROME (AP) — Three tourists were among four ... The accident happened just a week after the cable car, popular for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season.

In my new book, "Mythica," which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece ... around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.