This mountainous island, located in the Lesser Antilles chain ... earning it the nickname 'the Pompeii of the Caribbean'.

Pompeii was famously destroyed on 24 August in 79 AD - or was it? Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription they say may show that the history books have been wrong for centuries ...

"Pompeii is like a Roman island, " he added. "We have a picture of one day in 79AD." Dr Viva added that every human body in Pompeii was "a treasure". "These people are silent witnesses to one of ...

"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

Academics and armchair archaeologists still can't agree on the date when Pompeii was destroyed in a shower of volcanic hellfire. It was almost certainly sometime in late 79 CE, but was it August ...

Archaeologists discovered a series of ancient frescoes among the ruins of Pompeii, officials said. The artwork — which ...

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 ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum ... Sheridan has studied the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique, which devastated the town of St. Pierre, and has ...