A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in ...

From monuments to museums, areas where atrocities took place and the remains of natural disasters, tourists have been drawn to these sites that now serve as places of remembrance of lives lost and ...

A film director who survived both 9/11 in New York and the fires here in L.A. looks back on the similarities — and very real differences — between the two catastrophes, and what can be learned from ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

Pompeii may be the most celebrated example ... Cambodia’s astonishing jungle relic is another “lost city” that perhaps was never really lost. After all, no matter how dense the treescape ...

If California’s homeowners and businesses lost trillions in equity ... Could Los Angeles, City of Stars, Angels, La La Land, even become the Pompeii of the future – a vast metropolis destroyed ...

Palestinians gather in front of Gaza City's Al-Ahli Hospital to celebrate the ceasefire announcement, expressing mixed feelings of "sadness for those we lost" and "an indescribable joy for the end ...

and lost souls. One thinks, since it is the place in the world where everything begins in images and ends in reality, of the disaster films produced by Hollywood that have pre-scripted the ongoing ...

Another ancient Roman site which holds a special place in the imagination for young historians is the lost city of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. A thick layer of ash ...