POMPEII, Italy — In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.

In Pompeii, which was buried in volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago, exposure to the elements and 2.5 million tourists a year pose a threat to the ruins.

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.

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead follows a contemporary investigation of the Fugitives. Using state-of-the-art technology, experts were able to x-ray the plaster corpses to get a look at the preserved ...

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.

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 ...

Secrets of the Dead: Last Days of Pompeii is a co-production of RAI Documentari, GEDEON Programmes, and Roller Coaster Road Productions LLC, in association with The WNET Group.Produced by Steve ...

One might even question whether disturbing it is an offense to the dead. But “true archaeology,” according to ... explore—a nearly 1,000-square-foot tract in a wealthier area of Pompeii, ...

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… ...

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 ...