Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum -- which opens Thursday and runs ...

While you cannot see Pompeii in one day (we only saw 10 percent of the ruins) with our limited time, we headed to another ruined Roman settlement, called Herculaneum (Ercolo in Italian), which was ...

Pompeii's ruins weren't discovered until the 18th century. Their remarkable level of preservation and the subsequent ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

As opposed to the death of Herculaneum, ... “Jettatura,” having courted death in a duel only to slay his opponent in the ruins of Pompeii, ...

The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii’s ruins in 1752, have long beguiled scientists. Written on papyrus using carbon-based ink, the scrolls cannot be physically opened ...

Pompeii's Ruins Reveal 13 Figurines Telling A Dark And ... killing thousands of people in the settlement and the nearby towns of Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae. The eruption showered the ...

The vast majority of people in Pompeii and Herculaneum—the cities hardest hit—perished from asphyxiation, ... Some 1,000 bodies have been discovered in the ruins, ...

The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii’s ruins in 1752, have long beguiled scientists. Written on papyrus using carbon-based ink, the scrolls cannot be physically opened ...