Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even larger outburst, triggering a masse exodus from the disaster zone.

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli is where you'll find artifacts rescued from Pompeii and Herculaneum ... the lack of a museum cafe or other on-site refreshments (a valid complaint ...

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Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials ... (photo credit: Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino.) ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

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The site includes not only footprints but also ... The Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino reported that these footprints belong ...

Nearby, a burial site containing graves ... which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pottery and fragments of ceramics, which indicate a structured settlement existed in the area. Credit: Superintendence ...

Lord Cornwallis overcame three lines of Patriots, including thousands of Virginians, on the northern North Carolina ...

Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, donated three million dollars to support projects aimed at deciphering the ancient Herculaneum papyri, which have remained a ...