More than 1,900 years after Mount Vesuvius buried this Roman city in ash and pumice, researchers have used artificial ...

The Caltilius family resettled in Ostia – what was then a major port city to the north of Pompeii, 18 miles from Rome. There, they founded a temple to the Egyptian deity Serapis ...

Pompeii is an ancient Roman city in southern Italy that was buried under ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Today, it's one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites, offering clues into ...

Scientists used new techniques to analyze a case found next to the man, who died when Mount Vesuvius buried the Italian city ...

Archaeologists found the victim holding a terracotta mortar, which they interpret as an improvised attempt to shield his head.

A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans ...

Archaeologists have identified a victim of the 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii as potentially being a doctor, based ...

A victim of the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption, whose remains long puzzled archaeologists, may have been a doctor at the ancient city of Pompeii, a new study reveals. The ancient Roman city, ...

In a Nov. 6 Facebook post, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said the ceramic situla, or vase, was found in the Thermopolium in Regio V, an ancient snack bar. “The glazed vessel, usually found in the ...

Pompeii may have been unseasonably cold when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city in A.D. 79, new research proposes. A new analysis of 14 of the iconic plaster casts made of the ...