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In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

The world-famous landmark in southern Italy saw more than four million visitors last year, causing concern about safety and ...

It was AD 79 when the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under layers of ash during a two-day tempest. Today, the 66-hectare archaeological site offers visitors a snapshot of daily ...

Ironically, the ash that had destroyed Pompeii also ensured its preservation, leaving it frozen in time. As a result, its ruins offer the best look anywhere at life in an ancient Roman town, with its ...

This page may contain affiliate links - this means that if you buy something as a result of clicking on a link I’ll receive a small commission. Thanks! Visiting Pompeii, the ancient Roman city in ...

Pompeii is a place and era frozen in time, a result of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The volcanic eruption left people, landscape and furnishings in the state they were at the time of the ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

Pompeii’s “Two Maidens” may have been young gay lovers. Credit: Claus Ableiter / CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 2,000 years ago, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, two people in the ancient city of Pompeii held onto ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Elvis had a pompadour. Now the Graceland Exhibition Center has "Pompeii." A collection of close to 170 artifacts excavated from the famous ruins of the ...