The day Vesuvius blew its top 03:35. People tend to know the story of Pompeii: the ancient Roman city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic rock; its people entombed in ash, frozen in time.

August 24 is celebrated as Vesuvius Day to commemorate the eruption in A.D. 79. In this image: A cloud of ash hangs over Vesuvius during its worst eruption in more than 70 years.

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

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more.

Mount Vesuvius. While many of us here on the east coast were hit with varying degrees of earth shaking Tuesday, today marks the anniversary of a much worse natural disaster: the day Mount Vesuvius ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, 79 AD - or at least, that's what historians thought until now. ... a Roman senator and historian, about the events of that day. According to his account, ...

Later that day, I visited the observatory where geologists keep tabs on Vesuvius and the other volcanoes of Campania, 24-hours a day. Once housed on the slopes of Vesuvius itself, the monitoring ...

The discovery of two skeletons at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is giving archaeologists more clarity on the “the hell” that ensued when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2000 years ago.

The Day Vesuvius Blew its Top 22 photos Charles Cooper He has covered technology and business for more than 25 years, working at CBSNews.com, the Associated Press, Computer & Software News ...