During the tour, visitors will get to hike up Mount Vesuvius and wander around Pompeii. Tours offer more background about the locales than can be learned if exploring without a guide, but keep in ...

This tour will not only take in the two archaeological sites, but also includes a day devoted to Vesuvius itself, and two days in the fascinating and enigmatic city of Naples, where you see the ...

In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...

That includes Vesuvius National Park in Italy, which was recently named the most Instagrammable national park in the country. In June, Amalfi Coast Tours released its list of the most ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing ...

Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...

MILAN (AP) — Fausto Puglisi offered a grand tour of Pompeii in his latest collection ... beautifully represented the damage ...