Scientists and NASA have warned that a potential eruption of Italy’s mount Vesuvius may be a reality, with 3 million Italians ...

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...

That year, German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled through the Alps on the way home from a sojourn in Italy. Though it was ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

The 4,203-foot (1,281-metre) volcano, near Naples, Italy, appears like a watchful ... Mount Vesuvius is infamous for its deadly eruption in A.D. 79. The disaster buried the Roman cities of Pompeii ...

It is most famous for a massive eruption in A.D. 79 ... Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc — a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits ...

An eruption here could have catastrophic consequences, not just for Italy, but for Europe as a whole. Vulcano Located in the Aeolian Islands, Vulcano is another active volcano with a history of ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.