Under the volcano, a city converses with its past in the haunting ‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’

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

A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death

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.
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Is it safe to travel to Naples? Italy prepares for possible evacuations amid earthquake tremors

An area of southern Italy near Naples has been experiencing a surge in seismic activity over the last few days. Campi Flegrei ...
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Uncovering Vesuvius, Pompeii and ancient Naples: Italy

Embark on a captivating journey where history and volcanology come to life through Mount Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Based in Naples, you will be accompanied by volcanologist ...
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Construction near Pompeii unearths dozens of 2,000-year-old burials. Take a look

During construction in Italy, archaeologists found pre-Roman graves and an ancient plowed field preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and ...
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Pompeii: Rebirth of Italy's dead city that nearly died again

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the ...
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We found the lost Pompeii: In Italy, a mysterious staircase leads to a vanished city revealed by technology

A monumental staircase that seemed to lead nowhere... except now, the hypothesis of a ‘lost Pompeii’ re-emerged. Thanks to new digital tools, archaeologists are now lifting the veil on a little-known ...