Stromboli, Etna, and Vesuvius are the three most legendary active volcanoes in Italy. You can visit them, but there are a few ...

A portable sundial that looks like a pork leg — and it was likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law before Mount Vesuvius erupted In 1994, Byzantine scholar Nikolaos Oikonomides argued that the ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.