Now a new poster decides to paint a ridiculous picture as the infamous volcano erupts in the background while Kit Harrington ("Game of Thrones") and Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) share a kiss ...

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

T he most storied volcano on earth, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius looms above the Gulf of Naples like an unpredictable god. The story of the mountain’s 79 AD eruption that destroyed Pompeii and ...

The last time Mount Vesuvius erupted was in 1944, shortly before the end of World War 2, when 26 Italians were killed and almost 12,000 were displaced.. Though the volcano has lain quite still ...

The Vesuvius national park authority in Naples, Italy, has announced it will be closing access to the live volcano on Saturday, ahead of Napoli’s potential title-winning game on Sunday.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, ... Volcanic debris “poured across the land,” wrote the Roman lawyer Pliny the Younger, ...

Aug. 24 is observed as Vesuvius Day to commemorate the catastrophic and famous volcano eruption in A.D. 79, in present-day Italy.

The day Vesuvius blew its top 03:35. People tend to know the story of Pompeii: the ancient Roman city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic rock; its people entombed in ash, frozen in time.

The heat and volcanic ash from Vesuvius destroyed the town and preserved the scrolls, but in an unreadable state, turning them into charred fragile blocks that disintegrate if unrolled physically.

Vesuvius might be the most famous volcano of all time. It obliterated the ancient city of Pompeii in what was one of the most deadly volcanic eruptions in history in 79 AD, leaving an estimated ...