The frontier was full of rivers that needed taming and mountains begging to be blasted — and our forebears hoisted a hefty bag of tools to help them do it all. But of course, no [...]
Two-thousand years ago, Rome was an all-powerful empire and Pompeii was one of its prosperous provincial towns-until Mount Vesuvius exploded in the largest eruption ever recorded. In a matter of hours the thriving city was [...]