Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

However, lava flows from its most recent eruption in 1944 destroyed the nearby village of San Sebastiano. In total, Mount Vesuvius has had eight major eruptions in the last 17,000 years, ...

The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were destroyed by the flow of lava. ... Mount Vesuvius looms over the city of Naples, which is popularly known as the birthplace of pizza.

Like an increasing number of national parks in the United States, Mount Vesuvius has begun rationing access with a quota system. The system has had some problems. The Second Biggest Disaster at ...

The fires around Mount Vesuvius are under control, thanks to the hard work done by firefighters, but geologists fear that mudflows could now occur on the denuded slopes.

On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Mt. Vesuvius erupted in Italy with a thermal energy 100,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Like an increasing number of national parks in the United States, Mount Vesuvius has begun rationing access with a quota system. The system has had some problems. The Second Biggest Disaster at ...