The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s when volcanologists identified pumice deposits underneath the A.D. 79 residues. But in recent years Mastrolorenzo ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history, killing up to 16,000 people. Now, researchers have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a previously unexcavated Pompeii site.

One common misconception about the eruption of Vesuvius is that it happened suddenly and was over in an instant. But some experts suggest the events could have taken as long as seven hours.

THE activity of Vesuvius, incessant for some time past, has culminated in an eruption which, making every allowance for newspaper exaggeration, stands in the foremost rank of historic eruptions ...