Ancient Akrotiri is ranked #5 out of 13 things to do in Santorini. ... travelers can look at multilevel buildings, loads of pottery and even drainage systems. What is absent ... unlike Pompeii.

Two of the locals working there that day were musicians, one strumming a guitar and the other on accordion, who sang ...

Skara Brae is a Neolithic village located on the Bay of Skaill, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney Islands in Scotland. Inhabited between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE, it flourished before the ...

The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once ...

A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park has unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules , freshly planted with violets, ruscus plants, and ...

Archeological excavations of Pompeii continue to shed light on the daily lives of ancient Romans.

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Horses Found in Pompeii May Have Been Harnessed to Flee Eruption Several horses recently discovered in a 2,000-year-old stable appear frozen in a failed flight to safety from the eruption of Vesuvius.

Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe for almost 2,000 years. ... An eruption of Mount Vesuvius (background) in A.D. 79 buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock.