"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

And perhaps none of the other narratives meant to illuminate who perished together in the ancient eruption ... Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

Academics and armchair archaeologists still can't agree on the date when Pompeii was destroyed in a shower of volcanic hellfire. It was almost certainly sometime in late 79 CE, but was it August ...

In the vast network of historical and scientific debates, few enigmas have sparked as much fascination as the exact date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the cities of Pompeii and ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to restrict daily visits to no more than 20,000. The famous ...

For a comprehensive look at the effects of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius—and to lessen the crowds at Pompeii itself—visitors ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii ... of 79 C.E., rather than the widely accepted date of August 24. Pliny the Younger wrote two letters about the eruption ...

POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before ...

Another Italian tourist site has decided to regulate its hefty traffic - this time the buried city of Pompeii ... mud and lava in 79 AD after several volcanic eruptions. The preserved remains ...

Opening on Saturday, Pompeii combines evocative ... archaeological discoveries and the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius as it enveloped the city in AD 79. Curator Lily Withycombe said the ...