Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

However, over time, excavation projects fell by the wayside and the city faded in collective memory to a mere point on a map ... Once Italy was unified in 1861 and the Pompeii archaeological ...