A new study by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii gently backs up the theory that the town’s destruction might have occurred ...

POMPEII, Italy (KMID/KPEJ) – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two millennia ago. It’s ...

In recent times areas around Naples have seen a flurry of activities as government agencies conduct drills to make citizens ...

Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...

When Lily Withycombe visited the Australian Museum in 1995 to see an exhibition on Pompeii, she had an epiphany.

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in ... our list of the best Italy tours to view traveler ...

because the next morning a red-hot pyroclastic flow struck Pompeii, dealing a fatal blow to those who had remained, and burying the city under 30 feet of volcanic debris. After the eruption ...

(CNN) — Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption ... what’s now Italy’s Campania ...

[Related: Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be solved with a little help from chemistry.] In 79 CE, the Somma-Vesuvius volcano system erupted in southern Italy. The earthquakes and violent eruption ...

At Pompeii, now an archaeological park in which visitors can learn about the victims of the Vesuvius eruption, tourists flock to the attraction - one of ... AD after several volcanic eruptions.

In a forgotten corner of Pompeii, archaeologists and other experts are working feverishly with their scalpels and other tools ...