The destruction of Pompeii and the nearby coastal town of Herculaneum is undoubtedly history ... and about 2 million tourists visit the ruins each year. Although monitoring devices are in ...

Still, I visited Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Archeological Museum of Naples. These are three of the top ancient ruins in and around Naples. As a minimum, tourists really should plan to visit all ...

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...

And the gleaming Roman baths tourists still visit today present a vision of cleanliness and ... Almost every house and apartment building in Pompeii, Herculaneum and Ostia (cities much better ...

Dr Richard Miles follows in the footsteps of the 18th century archaeologists who discovered Herculaneum... To visit the incredible sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a tourist is incredible ...

You know about Vesuvius, famous for wiping out Herculaneum and Pompeii, but there's another ... the complexities of a successful hunt. The Travel Show sets off on a journey to celebrate an ...

A young man was lying in bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory put forward by ...

after Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii, Italy. The somma-stratovolcano caused mudslides to form that left the city of Herculaneum covered in over 65 feet of volcanic ash, per Nature.