When planning a trip to Italy, you can almost push a pin randomly in the map and leave it at that. There’s such a wealth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ancient city was covered in volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years ago after the eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius [Photo: AFP] Italy's world-famous archaeological site Pompeii reopened to the public ...