Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Since its discovery in the late 16th century, excavations of Pompeii's ruins have continued to shed light on the city's incredible life before it was buried by volcanic ash in 79 AD. A new ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

Pompeii's ruins weren't discovered until the ... wayside and the city faded in collective memory to a mere point on a map. The first documented "discovery" of the site is attributed to Italian ...