A spectacular restoration project at Pompeii means visitors can now visit the famed House of Lovers for the first time in 40 years. The building is one of the best-known attractions at Pompeii ...

5 The two bodies were found in a loving embrace Credit: Splash News It is now believed that the two Pompeii victims, known as "The Two Maidens", might have actually been young male gay lovers.

Archeologists at Pompeii discovered that two bodies holding each other that were previously thought to be female had male DNA. Pompeii was a Roman city destroyed and buried in A.D. 79 by a ...

The Italian Cultural Ministry on Tuesday revealed the bodies of two men, both probably in their 50s, who died in an earthquake triggered by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption at Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

A spectacular restoration project at Pompeii means visitors can now visit the famed House of Lovers for the first time in 40 years. The building is one of the best-known attractions at Pompeii ...

5 The two bodies were found in a loving embrace Credit: Splash News It is now believed that the two Pompeii victims, known as "The Two Maidens", might have actually been young male gay lovers.