A British man has died on holiday in front of his wife and children while climbing Mount Vesuvius. Identified locally as Mark Irwin, 56, he died on Sunday after hiking the 4,000ft volcano near ...

By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s ...

For visitors to Naples or the Amalfi Coast, a morning spent hiking Mount Vesuvius should be combined with a trip to Pompeii, after all, you will be climbing to the top of the very volcano that ...

Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...