In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash, freezing Roman life in time. This disaster ...

Nephew Paul shipped five chunks of plaster from the walls of ancient site back to the Pompeii Archaeological Park alongside ...

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

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed what may be an ancient villa they believe belonged to the first Roman ...

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

Excavations of Pompeii continue today, telling stories of the way people lived almost two thousand years ago. One story tells ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

The cargo ship was found laden with hundreds of Roman pottery jars, most of which are intact. The house, featuring erotic art and bronze statues, was the epitome of wealth in ancient times. After ten ...

Archeological excavations of Pompeii continue to shed light on the daily lives of ancient Romans.

Pompeii was famously destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The wealthy town, which was home to between 10,000 and 20,000 people, was largely preserved underneath a thick layer of ...