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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the ...

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 ...

A famous mosaic from Pompeii holds lessons for today.

In 1906, a major eruption of Mount Vesuvius caused hundreds of deaths. Let's revisit those dramatic days through the ...

Researchers examining the remains of a man whose brain supposedly turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius said they likely know what ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a variety of ways, including drying, freezing and tanning. Some preserved brains even resemble soap. But now they've found something ...

Easter Sunday saw as many as 2,640 visitors at the Vesuvius Crater, confirming the site's strong appeal among both Italian and foreign tourists. Today, on Easter Monday, similar numbers ...

NAPLES, Italy -- Mount St. Helens, the rumbling volcano in Washington state, has belched out dramatic columns of steam and ash in the past week, but here in Naples, volcano experts regard all the ...

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.