Its last eruption was in 1944. There was no word for volcano before 79 AD: After the eruption in 79 AD, the word "volcano" was created, named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking.

Mount Vesuvius is near the city of Pompeii, Italy. It is famous for its catastrophic eruption in 79 CE. Mount Vesuvius last ...

A team of engineers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have brought to life a unique piece of art depicting a ...

An 18th-century British ambassador to Italy was so fascinated by volcanoes that he designed a multimedia device to make ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D ...

Archaeologists have revitalized a Roman flower garden in Pompeii that survived an earthquake in 62 A.D. before being buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The garden was hidden for nearly 1,900 years.