The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one ... was stationed in Misenum, across the Bay of Naples. He had observed an umbrella-like cloud looming over Mount Vesuvius around 1pm ...

Near the submerged city of Baiae, archaeologists found a stunning opus sectile floor that had been built in the last days of ...

stratovolcano located next to the city of Naples along the western Italian coastline. It is most famous for a massive eruption in A.D. 79, which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and ...

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe ... Its ancient origins date back to Greek and Roman mythology, as it reproduces the phallic shape ...