Kitchen Dog Theater, now in its 27th year, recently premiered Pompeii, a musical comedy about the ill-fated citizens of the eponymous ancient city in the final days before the eruption of Vesuvius.

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman ...

Most people know about Pompeii, the city that was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Starting Friday at Discovery Times Square, more than 250 artifacts from one of the ...

The bronze statue was originally located in the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii and dates from about 100 BC, according to the Getty. The majority of the figure was unearthed in pieces in 1817, and a ...

these bronze statues, like so much of the art from pompeii, are 1st-century-bc copies of 4th-century-bc greek originals. ... and the dog snarls. you can almost hear the bull snorting.

About three-quarters of Pompeii’s 165 acres have been excavated, and some 1,150 bodies have been discovered out of about 2,000 thought to have died in the city when it was destroyed.