Archaeologist and author Rubén Montoya reviews the history of the famous location razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Gallego emphasizes that his team’s project is the first to analyze the skeletons inside the plaster casts at Pompeii — figures ... door to investigating other human remains from different ...

Pompeii: The New Dig on PBS follows a group of archaeologists involved in the largest excavation at the ancient site in a ...

Researchers have unearthed evidence that the inhabitants of Herculaneum were subjected to the full force of ‘pyroclastic currents’—a lethal mixture of gas and volcanic particles that descended upon ...

Garden archaeology as a discipline was pioneered in Pompeii in ... and plaster on human remains for years,” Mayeske says, “but Jashemski used that technology to cast the plants’ roots ...

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a so-called ‘pizza’, and make a grisly discovery.

The discovery of these spectacular frescoes enriches our understanding of Pompeii's past and confirms the timeless allure of classical mythology and its enduring relevance in shaping human ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the human genome – DNA blueprint – of a man who died in Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Before this only short stretches of DNA ...

Headline:Cincinnatians can now experience the sights, sounds and sensations of the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...