To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

Photos by Giulia Gerosa for Thrillist Rome is not a theme park. It doesn’t come with maps where every corner delivers a ...

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

Ever since King Carlo III of Naples started excavations in 1748, thousands of studies have been made of the lost city of Pompeii, but the site still comes up with surprises. For the last ten years, a ...

The villa, located in the Civita Giuliana area outside the walls of ancient Pompeii, was originally discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, then partially excavated in the 1950s and later ...

ELIE FAURE HISTORY OF ART ANCIENT ART by WALTER PACH Publication date 1921 Publisher HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Item Size 613.0M ...

Ancient ruins in Pompeii, near the area of the House of the Garden of Hercules. Credit: Paul Appleton / CC BY-NC 2.0 The ancient Garden of Hercules, a centuries-old site in the heart of Pompeii, has ...

A study of animal remains from an ancient trash pit in Mallorca suggests thrushes were once a staple of Roman street food culture.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet for over two decades, has captured a spectacular landscape image of a giant ancient volcano called Arsia Mons just before dawn.