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

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

Buried by a volcanic eruption 1400 years ago, well-preserved remains of the Maya village have earned a provocative nickname: ...

2,000-year-old DNA is revealing more about the people who died during the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The superheated ...

Researchers recently discovered bloodshed-themed stick-figure sketches in a cluster of houses in the doomed ancient city ...

The drawings, which were found in a part of the doomed city known as the Insula of the Chaste Lovers, provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of children in Pompeii before the infamous ...

avalanche down the side of the volcano towards Pompeii. Unfortunately, an admiral of the fleet, his uncle died attempting to cross the bay in order to assist in evacuating the people of Pompeii.

The restored version of John Martin’s Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, ...

The Herculaneum archaeological park is the site where, as Mount Vesuvius erupted, hundreds of people are said to have flocked ...

The natural disaster is thought to have killed 16,000 people in Pompeii and surrounding ... the house was undergoing renovations before being buried by volcanic ash. However, the room was ...

Two sets of human remains, a variety of paintings, and a handful of childrens’ doodles were recently found in Pompeii, the ancient Roman town that was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79.

It's just that nobody ever went looking for them before ... believes traders from Pompeii could have been there, safe from the volcanic fallout. [Distant rumbling, people shouting, dog ...