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 ...

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Taken as a group, the frescoes in the House of Thiasos are one of just two clusters of large artworks known as megalographs that have been discovered in Pompeii. The other, located in the nearby ...

The statues were located in the necropolis of Porto Sarno ... in a study published by the E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii. “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young married ...

Pompeii's history reads like a Greek tragedy. Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius ...