Italy currently boasts an incredible 60 UNESCO World Heritage sites, which is more than any other country on the planet. They aren't all ancient ruins, either. The sites fall into a few categories.

A portable sundial that looks like a pork leg — and it was likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law before Mount Vesuvius erupted In 1994, Byzantine scholar Nikolaos Oikonomides argued that the ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Although the museum’s artwork was unscathed, roughly 1,400 trees on the property burned during the Palisades fire. Visible ...

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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius (background) in A.D. 79 buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock. ... that recovered fragments of unique Pompeii frescoes.

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A minor earthquake in southern Italy has led to damage to structures within the Pompeii archaeological site. Officials confirmed on Thursday that a wall and a vault had partially collapsed.

There were no frescoes or movable relics in the damaged structure and no one was injured. ... The ancient settlement of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

A minor earthquake in southern Italy has caused the partial collapse of a wall and a portion of a vault at the Pompeii archaeological site, authorities said on Thursday.