Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples ... consult our list of the best Italy tours to view traveler ...

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ancient city of Pompeii in ash.

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

Vesuvius is a 4,203-foot-tall (1,281 meters) stratovolcano located next to the city of Naples along ... a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits on ...

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have ...

Despite its rather unfavourable reputation, Lonley Planet has named Italy's third-largest city as one of the best places in ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most ... The 2,000ft volcano, located in the Gulf of Naples, started spewing a cloud of rocky volcanic fragments and gas into ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the clarity of the text. The process led to a 3D image of the scroll that allowed ...

Before Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing ancient Mount Vesuvius eruption ... Archaeologists in Italy found ancient footprints near Naples that reveal a dramatic escape from a volcanic ...

Scholars and scientists have worked for more than 250 years on ways to decipher the scrolls, the vast majority of which are held in the National Library of Naples. This undated image made ...