Stromboli, Etna, and Vesuvius are the three most legendary active volcanoes in Italy. You can visit them, but there are a few ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Herculaneum beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius reopens centuries later The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 people died while waiting for boats to save them from the volcanic ...

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

While Herculaneum is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, Pompeii, it was also destroyed by Mount Vesuvius — and the beach area is known for holding the remains of at least 330 people ...

An ancient beach that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago has reopened to the public after restoration works. The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park is ...

The remains of ancient Herculaneum with Mount Vesuvius in the background. PierPaolo Petrone "A cerebral and spinal material like this, vitrified, not only has never been found in any other of the ...

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Herculaneum—but may have preserved a lost library of ... which had been destroyed by pyroclastic flows from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments ...

The characters πορφύραc, ancient Greek for “purple,” were extracted from a Herculaneum scroll carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.