A LEGACY OF DISASTERS. Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe since 79 A.D., when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. After serious excavations began ...

Like all women of their time, Asellina and Zmyrina could not vote. But they found influence in their own ways. Asellina owned a popular thermopolium on a bustling corner of ancient Pompeii, where ...

Horses Found in Pompeii May Have Been Harnessed to Flee Eruption Several horses recently discovered in a 2,000-year-old stable appear frozen in a failed flight to safety from the eruption of Vesuvius.

Structures partially collapse at Pompeii archaeological site after earthquake. The tremor originated near a super volcano not far from Naples. Keith Weir. Thursday 05 June 2025 16:13 BST.

ROME, June 5 (Reuters) - A minor earthquake in southern Italy has caused the partial collapse of a wall and a portion of a vault at the Pompeii archaeological site, authorities said on Thursday ...

The journey from Naples to the ruins of Pompeii takes about half an hour on the Circumvesuviana, a train that rattles through a ribbon of land between the base of Mt. Vesuvius, on one side, and ...

Salesianum's Luca Pompeii has been named the Player of the Year and leads the All-State boys lacrosse team selected by the Delaware Interscholastic Boys Lacrosse Coaches Association.

Tour guides in Pompeii say inadequate entry systems at the world’s most famous archaeological site are causing long queues, cutting their earnings and spoiling visitors’ experiences.

Pompeii's victims were later immortalized by archaeologists who used plaster to fill the voids left by their bodies and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 5 - A wall and a portion of ceiling partially collapsed in Pompeii after a seismic swarm in the nearby volcanic area of the Campi Flegrei Thursday. The domus had already been ...