The entire countryside surrounding Vesuvius was covered by foot upon foot of this powder, 65 feet (20 meters) deep at a distance of three miles (five kilometers) from the crater to about ten ...

We are indebted to a gentleman now in Naples for the following deeply interesting account of the present eruption of Vesuvius ... the circle around the great crater. The red-hot stones, which ...

Stand atop the crater rim and stare directly into the seemingly bottomless blackened and smoky depths. For visitors to Naples or the Amalfi Coast, a morning spent hiking Mount Vesuvius should be ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet ... it fairly set in. From the crater formed by the eruption of 1794, which is two miles in circumference, clouds of smoke began to ...