From the Pompeii stop, a shuttle van takes you up the volcano to the end of the road and ticket booth ($9 entry). From there, it’s a steep 30-minute hike to the desolate, lunarlike summit.

The region, 80 miles south of Naples, is the most congested volcano zone in the world. According to History.com, the event that destroyed Pompeii released a fury equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima-type ...

From the Pompeii stop, a shuttle van takes you up the volcano to the end of the road and ticket booth ($9 entry). From there, it’s a steep 30-minute hike to the desolate, lunar-like summit.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy, in 79 A.D. killed thousands of Pompeii residents and remains one of the most famous volcanic explosions in history. But scientists say a hidden ...

Indeed, during a Red Zone evacuation drill in October 2006, traffic on the nearby Napoli-Pompeii autostrada ground to a halt; an overnight thunderstorm seriously complicated the exodus; and one of ...

In the shadow of Vesuvius and Pompeii, a lesser-known volcano puts Naples at risk. In the shadow of Italy’s Vesuvius, a lesser-known volcano rumbles: Campi Flegrei. If it erupts, millions of ...

In the shadow of Italy’s Vesuvius, a lesser-known volcano rumbles: Campi Flegrei. An eruption could endanger the millions of residents of the city of Naples. Scientists gain new insights into ...

Pompeii may not have been the center of the ancient Roman world, but it was nonetheless an important hub in Campania, a region bordering the Bay of Naples. Pompeii’s population was somewhere ...

New archaeological techniques and methodology "allow us to understand better the inferno that in two days completely destroyed the city of Pompeii, killing many inhabitants," he added, making it ...

Today, about 3 million people live in the immediate vicinity of the mountain that exploded so cataclysmically, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing an estimated 10,000 to 25,000 people.

The gallery features more than 200 items on loan from the Naples National Archaeological Museum, which was founded in 1777, about 30 years after excavators realized that they’d found Pompeii.