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 ...

Mount Vesuvius, located on the west coast of Italy just 9 kilometers from Naples—a city of 3 million inhabitants—is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world and is still active ...

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 ...

Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on August 24 in AD 79 at around noon. The 2,000 ft volcano in the Gulf of Naples, on Italy's west coast, first spewed a colossal cloud of rocky fragments and gas into ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...