The depiction of a Dionysiac mystery cult now serves as an “exceptional historical document,” allowing us a glimpse into one ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a nearly life-size fresco, or megalography, depicting the Dionysiac procession in an excavated banqueting room in Region IX.

Mind Shattering The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries.

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A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

The story of Pompeii’s destruction is renowned across the world. In 79 AD, this prosperous Roman town was destroyed by a ...

When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

Nearly two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists ...

Fausto Puglisi offered a grand tour of Pompeii in his latest collection for Roberto Cavalli presented Thursday during Milan ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...