A mechanical artwork created in 1775 to portray the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius has been brought to life for the first time. A remarkable mechanical artwork first envisioned in 1775 to capture ...

A man survived a fall into Mount Vesuvius in Italy after reportedly trying to take a selfie. The tourist, who is from Maryland, hiked up to the top of the 4,000-foot-high volcano with his family, ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park, located in the southern Italian region of Campania, opened on Wednesday after a multi-year restoration project. "Today, after three years of intensive ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it unleashed a torrent of destruction that obliterated Pompeii and neighboring towns.

Researchers examining the remains of a man whose brain supposedly turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius said they likely know what ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of ...