Researchers are studying one of the best-preserved trilobite fossils ever discovered, which are about 500 million years old.

Volcanic ash covered and preserved many of the bodies. The remains of the town were initially discovered in 1599 and by the 19th Century, ... Pompeii body casts. CREDIT: ...

Some of the bodies of Pompeii were also preserved in plaster, but not from Mount Vesuvius and not in 79 CE. In the 1860s and 1870s, ...

Then, before their bodies could collapse or rot, they were preserved in place by a slow-moving lahar. Now, excavations at Lujiatun continue – with new discoveries each year.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered two immaculately preserved statues which depict a man ... by the E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii. “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic ...

Several bodies were found in the "Villa of the Mysteries" in 1909–1910, known for its decorative frescoes dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine, religious ecstasy, and fertility.

A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.

Ancient Pompeii has never ceased to astonish. During one of the very earliest excavations there, in 1772, participants were stunned by the impressions left in the hard debris by the bodies of ...

POMPEII, Italy (WKRC) - Archaeologists excavating the buried city of Pompeii discovered a pair of bodies clutching a trove of precious metals and jewelry. Before 2023, an area of Pompeii called ...

In the 1880s, archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli made plaster casts of 104 of the Pompeii victims by pouring liquid chalk into the ash shell of bodies once made of soft tissue that had since decomposed.