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 ...

There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius unleashed in ... has studied the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown ...