This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

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Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc — a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits on a boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Cascades of lava flowed from one of Mount Etna’s largest craters for the first time in four years. It is Europe’s tallest active volcano. Photo: Etna Walk/Giuseppe di Stefano/Reuters ...

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Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.