A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

THE activity of Vesuvius, incessant for some time past, has culminated in an eruption which, making every allowance for newspaper exaggeration, stands in the foremost rank of historic eruptions ...

Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano in continental Europe and is thought to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Every single resident died ...

Mount Vesuvius continues to be one of the chosen destinations for tourists: 2,884 visitors on Easter, 2,807 on Easter Monday. 'This year too, on Easter and Easter Monday, the Crater of ...

Even on May 1st, the Vesuvius Crater recorded a very positive attendance figure at the Crater area. Thousands of visitors, from all over Italy and abroad, chose to spend Labor Day on the volcano ...

The volcano, in the Andes of southwest Bolivia ... because the thick layers of rock trap gas easily. Mount Vesuvius, which decimated Pompeii, is the most famous example of a stratovolcano.

As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map. It was ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.