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

A LEGACY OF DISASTERS. Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe since 79 A.D., when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. After serious excavations began ...

Collectors are buying colourful lives as much as paintings — and sleuthing gallerists know how to feed those appetites ...

When people think of Pompeii, they usually picture tragedy frozen in time — bodies preserved in ash, homes swallowed up […] ...

Explore 7 volcanic eruptions that changed the course of history, from Pompeii’s destruction to Krakatoa's global effects.

The journey from Naples to the ruins of Pompeii takes about half an hour on the Circumvesuviana, a train that rattles through a ribbon of land between the base of Mt. Vesuvius, on one side, and ...

Pompeii, a name synonymous with a moment frozen in time, continues to yield incredible secrets, two thousand years after ...

A photo exhibition that’s part of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit shows the devastating effects of climate change.

They are done in the style of the nineteenth-century salon painters, and they are dealing with Rome and a great colonial power on the eve of its destruction—in its innocence, in its glorious, mad, ...

Patrick Boucheron revisits important dates of history. The revelation of Pompeii in 1748, destroyed in 79 CE, marks the beginning of archaeological history and the construction of a collective ...

Pompeii is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy. It is also, apparently, a popular target for archaeological theft. According to the Guardian, a travel agent in the city received an ...