Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

consult our list of the best Italy tours to view traveler-approved companies. During the tour, visitors will get to hike up Mount Vesuvius and wander around Pompeii. Tours offer more background ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

That’s exactly what happened to employees in Italy working on a methane pipeline ... evidence of humans and animals fleeing a Mount Vesuvius explosion over a thousand years before the one ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc — a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits on a boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have ... The active volcano near Naples, Italy is famous for destroying several cities including Pompeii ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient footprints in Italy’s Salerno province, revealing the desperate escape of Pompeii inhabitants from an earlier eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 3,000 years ago.

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Mount Vesuvius, Italy [40.82177024, 14.42760653] What's in the photo? The peak of Vesuvius aligned with a gap in the clouds Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8 When was ...