Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius​, with all hiking routes up ...

Hiking trails on Italy's Mount Vesuvius have been closed to the public as firefighters battle a massive blaze that erupted ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., roughly 2,000 people were trapped in the ancient city of Pompeii. The victims who ...

A large wildfire burning on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius near Naples has caused alarm after the flames were mistaken for a ...

Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left ...

Firefighters continued to battle wildfires on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, in southern Italy, on Monday. Planes ...

AT LEAST one person has died as terrifying wildfires sweep across Greece and spread through Europe. Up to 16,000 acres of ...

Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the ...

The cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii in 79 CE, but the Roman city didn’t remain a lifeless disaster ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

In total, Mount Vesuvius has had eight major eruptions in the last 17,000 years, based on geological analysis of the layers of lava surrounding it, according to the Earth Observatory.

The area around Mount St. Helens is largely uninhabited. But Mount Vesuvius stands within the Naples megalopolis of 5 million inhabitants. Keeping tabs on it is a matter of massive life and death.