The 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War were found during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, which was submerged by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

Icelandic police declared a state of emergency shortly after the latest eruption on Saturday.

The eruption site is close to Grindavík, a coastal town of about 3,800 people that was evacuated before a previous eruption on December 18.

For the second time in four weeks, a volcano has erupted in Iceland, with lava this time reaching a coastal town and setting houses on fire.

A volcanic eruption started Monday night on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, turning the sky orange and prompting the country’s civil defence to be on high alert.

The presence of hikers at Marapi, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, reveals West Sumatra authorities had defied a years-long ban on visitors to the peak.

First-time hike Tita Cahyani is being treated for extensive burns after escaping spewing rock and ash from the erupting Marapi volcano this weekend.

Rescuers are contending with bad weather and terrain constraints, as the scouring wind brings intense heat from Mount Marapi’s multiple eruptions.

The bodies of the climbers were discovered on Monday as a search for 12 more missing people was temporarily halted over safety concerns.

The island was name-checked in Netflix’s Squid Game and has long been a famous tourist spot, yet it still offers surprisingly diverse scenery and cultural heritage – including the famed haenyeo female divers

Eruptions in 2021, 2022 and July this year were all preceded by a series of quakes, with thousands of tremors in the last couple of weeks.

‘There was a panic situation’ at Blue Lagoon Iceland spa, taxi driver says, as guests fled one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions, fearing a rash of earthquakes presaged a volcanic eruption.

The room found at the Civita Giuliana villa underlines the ‘conditions of precarity and poor hygiene’ in which people of lower status lived at the time, Italy’s culture ministry said.

The latest cancellations at Catania airport came a month after a fire at a terminal building led to weeks of disruptions for passengers. The volcano burst into action overnight, firing lava and ash high over the Mediterranean island.

Taiwan’s Turtle Island attracts everyone from watersports fans to volcano enthusiasts, while Toucheng on the mainland, which provides boat links, is the gateway to some of Taiwan’s best beaches.

Officials warned residents the situation could worsen because the current heatwave in northern Europe has made the terrain tinder-dry. ‘The fire is out of control,’ said Canary Islands regional president Fernando Clavijo.

Red-hot rocks have been falling from Mount Mayon in the central province of Albay, hitting areas up to two kilometres away.

Uprooted by a calamity beyond their control, families affected by the ‘Lapindo Mudflow’ are now divided by petty rivalries in the fight to gain legal ownership of their land.

Lava travelled 7km down the mountain’s slopes, and the eruption blocked out the sun and blanketed several villages with falling ash on the densely populated island of Java.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thanked search teams who found the Filipino crew and Australian passengers ‘in dangerous circumstances and weather’ at the crash site of the Cessna 340 that went missing with four on board at the weekend.

Wreckage of a small plane has been spotted near the crater of Mayon Volcano. Authorities said they would verify if it was the Cessna 340 that went missing over the weekend with four people on board.

Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano has dealt significant blow to country’s fisheries and aquaculture sector, while young corals are failing to mature in the coastal waters around the eruption site.

In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulphur, or ‘devil’s gold’, risking respiratory illness and death to haul 200-pound loads of sulphur up crater walls.

One of the most active volcanoes in Central America has erupted again.

The volcano sent ‘an eruptive column’ of volcanic ash and hot gases 6,000 metres above its crater, Chile’s National Geology and Mining Service said.