Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.

Human brain turned to glass by ash cloud from Vesuvius By Michael Franco February 28, 2025 This piece of organic glass was found inside the brain of a man from ancient Rome who was killed in the Mount ...

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

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. The national fire service said it ...

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 ...

The Roman city of Pompeii was the site of one of Antiquity’s biggest tragedies. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in it in AD79. When the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupted, Pompeii (and most of its ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery among the ruins of Pompeii that reveals how the Romans built their lavish empire. The team uncovered a construction site, untouched by the eruption of Italy's ...

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ...