The nearly 5,000-year-old remains of a "sacrificial ass" and three other donkeys from a faraway land have been discovered ...

Most of the things to do in Pompeii will delight archaeology and history fans. You could spend an entire day exploring and ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

Archaeologists have found 2 male bodies in the Suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, approximately 700 meters North-west of ...

For the past two decades, the LGBT movement has been busily engaged in the task of queering history. Not only have they ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday.

We need to have backups already in place before disaster strikes, whether that’s warehouses in different towns, top-notch ...

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

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

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel shows that his selection was an inspired choice. Whether exploring the ...

Once a prosperous Roman city of 15,000 people, Pompeii was buried in the two-day eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.