Under the archaeological park’s new director, innovative technology is helping restore some of Pompeii’s nearly obliterated glories and limit the effects of a new threat: climate change.

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — Pompeii is the city of the long goodbye.In A.D. 62, a major earthquake toppled buildings, causing severe damage, harbinger of what was to come. Seventeen years later, in… ...

DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were Integrating genetic data with historic and archaeological data can enrich or correct popular narratives.

Most of the things to do in Pompeii will delight archaeology and history fans. You could spend an entire day exploring and ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

In an apparently strange reversal, however, the tombs in Pompeii, the city of the dead, were, unlike the catacombs of Naples and Rome, rarely the subjects of necropolitan meditations.

Explore the last days in Pompeii, before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago.

BURIED IN DEAD POMPEII; The Eloquent Silence of the Uncovered Ruins. ROMAN LIFE IN A.D. 79 PICTURED Glimpses at Home and in Public -- History Scribbled on the Walls -- Luxury Which Had Become Debased ...

Organized by the office of Pompeii’s archaeological superintendent, the exhibition includes nearly 500 objects (sculpture, jewelry, frescoes, household objects and plaster casts of the dead ...

A three-part PBS documentary explores the revelatory recent excavations of the ancient Italian city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Home Science speed read New DNA tests of Pompeii dead upend popular stories An analysis of skeletal remains revealed that some Mount Vesuvius victims have been ...

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