Rick Steves' Europe. Art Bites 120: The Ruins of Pompeii and Its Art. Clip | 5m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The excavated site of Pompeii gives a revealing look at a great Roman city.

Archaeologists have uncovered an extravagant private bath complex in Pompeii, shedding further light on the ancient Roman city's grandeur prior to its destruction by Mount Vesuvius in AD79. You ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park has unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules , freshly planted with violets, ruscus plants, and ...

The artwork — which contains vivid depictions of a variety of creatures — was uncovered inside a large house in the city, according to a Dec. 23 news release from the Pompeii Archaeological Park.

Amid the unearthed sculptures and grand artwork that display the affluence of the once-grand city of Pompeii before its destruction, there’s a little drawing of the outline of a hand and some ...

Pompeii: The Exhibition, coming to Cincinnati Museum Center on Feb. 16, allows you to experience the ancient city and its destruction by volcano.

A new study by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii gently backs up the theory that the town’s destruction might have occurred on August 24 in 79 CE, a date first put forward in a letter by the ...

“New insight into the destruction of Pompeii gets us very close to the experience of the people who lived here 2,000 years ago,” Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried ...

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered intricate artwork inside a small Pompeii house that was buried in ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.