Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first time in a new permanent exhibition. The residents are captured in ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 remains one of the most deadly volcanic events in history and is believed to ...

Director Gianfranco Rosi builds an intimate city portrait of Naples, filled with people leading bustling modern lives in the ...

The past and the present converge in this ravishingly beautiful Italian documentary set in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

A 1775 design for a mechanical Mount Vesuvius eruption device has finally been built, recreating an eighteenth-century volcanic spectacle.

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments. On Thursday, curators put 22 ...

The first permanent exhibition of Pompeii’s historic casts is now on display in Italy, paying homage to those who were brutally killed after being engulfed by an inundation of volcanic ash. The ...

Pompeii restores ancient vines through a scientific project that reconnects the archaeological site with its historic farming ...

A new exhibition has shown off the agonising final moments of the residents of Pompeii after they were buried in volcanic ash. Pompeii's Archaeological Park has put 22 plaster casts on show, taken ...

Gianfranco Rosi discusses exploring the past, present and future of Napoli in his new documentary, the Venice winner Pompei: Below the Clouds.

It might not mean anything, but it could mean something. One very specific thing.