A shrine. A banquet hall. Graffiti. The buried city of Pompeii is revealing the deepest secrets of ancient Roman life as ...

The biggest archaeological dig in years in the ancient Italian city of Pompeii is turning up clues about how people lived ...

Pompeii had as many as 30,000 residents at the time, in addition to many domestic animals and livestock. But what percentage of these people were actually able to flee the eruption? Sign up for ...

Hidden under the ash for almost 2,000 years, the mosaics that once adorned the wealthy homes and public buildings of Pompeii ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of more than 200 survivors from the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that swallowed up the Roman city of Pompeii ... evidence that people could have ...

The scenes look rudimentary enough to have ... making their heads explode. Around 2,000 people are believed to have been killed in Pompeii, which had a population of 11,000 at the time.

continues an exploration of the city’s archaeological dig through the lens of the eruption and the last hours of the people living in and around Pompeii. In it, we return to the newly discovered ...

Amid the unearthed sculptures and grand artwork that display the affluence of the once-grand city of Pompeii before its ...

Originally Pompeii was much like any other Roman ... a very relatable insight into chaos and confusion as people scrambled for safety, looking back over their shoulders at the approaching cloud ...

Elsewhere in the room, which is around 86 ... pieces of the Pompeii puzzle back together. “Two thousand years ago, someone ...

2,000-year-old DNA is revealing more about the people who died during the fateful ... information may still be present in ...

ROME, May 29 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near the city of Naples have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children as young as six years old, depicting ...