Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

When planning a trip to Italy, you can almost push a pin randomly in the map and leave it at that. There’s such a wealth of ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

By 79, Pompeii had a population of 20,000 ... Some time in the night or early the next day, pyroclastic flows began near the volcano, consisting of high-speed, dense and extremely hot ash clouds.

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...