Today, Pompeii is famous for being the site of a natural disaster—the deadly 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which left ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

The literal — but not the figurative — high point of our trip was summiting Mount Vesuvius ... which is governed by a regulation." Before COVID, Vesuvius had a ticket office near the entrance ...

An ancient beach that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ... construction sites that are active like never before and are revealing new treasures, which fuel ...

When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... ash cloud swept through Herculaneum before an avalanche of ash and volcanic ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ... above” 950 degrees Fahrenheit (510 degrees Celsius) before quickly cooling. But the majority of the eruption’s known ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 is perhaps most famous ... forming lumps of glass called fulgurites. Before the young Roman’s brain remnants were discovered, however, glassy biological ...