Located near Naples, Italy, Vesuvius last had a violent eruption in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War. It could be a few hundred years before another dangerous, explosive eruption occurs, ...

Ancient scrolls that were buried in volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius are now being deciphered two thousand years later thanks in part to artificial intelligence. Martin Stew of ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire. Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the ...

I recently got married and spent the last few weeks honeymooning in Italy. And just ... wow, what a wonderful country. The culture and the history. The food. The sea and the mountains. The food. Did I ...

On the third day of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption, physicist Luigi Palmieri found himself isolated between torrents of red-hot lava flowing past his stone-walled workplace, the Vesuvius Observatory, on ...