The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants ... its sole ruler after his defeat of Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. Augustus portrayed himself as the ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

After a few years of calm, chaos returns to Mount Vesuvius. Tour operators and travel agencies in Campania are up in arms over some anomalies in the procurement of online tickets; the ticket ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, a young man was lying in bed when a hot cloud of ash swept down from Mount Vesuvius, an erupting volcano. This may have turned his brain into glass. Italian scientists have ...

Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Yet that very same volcano would erupt and doom ...

When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ... the Great’s triumph over the Persian king Darius III at the epic ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Mount Vesuvius continues to be one of the chosen destinations for tourists: 2,884 visitors on Easter, 2,807 on Easter Monday. 'This year too, on Easter and Easter Monday, the Crater of Vesuvius ...

A.D. 24-79). Polymath, encyclopedist, administrator, and admiral, the elder Pliny perished directing rescue operations during the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to which the younger man was an ...