The deposits recorded dramatic, increasingly violent pulses from the volcano. At noon on Day 1, Vesuvius began to eject a plume of rocky volcanic fragments and gas into the air, known as an ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...

A stunning fresco discovered in Pompeii depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter and Leda, the Greek mythical queen ...

Discover 10 breathtaking images of Earth from space, featuring volcanic eruptions, heart-shaped lakes, shifting dunes, and ...

this ancient Roman town was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD. Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum was ...

Researchers say that, at some point, the extreme heat transformed parts of his brain. Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous volcanoes in the world. It looms over the Bay of Naples in Italy, ...

Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii in 79 A.D. Credit: The Dronaut / CC BY-SA 4.0 Scientists examining the remains of a man who perished in the catastrophic eruption of ...

The Mount Vesuvius eruption had somehow turned the ... were killed and the two cities were buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud, sitting untouched until their rediscovery ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Redesigning the contours of the national evacuation plan to prevent the risk of an uncontrolled exodus. A flight from the ...