Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, they will see not just the elevation of a new saint, but a story of a radical conversion.

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

More than 100 items, ranging from frescoes and paintings to sculptures, photographs, and other rare artifacts from Italian museums, will go on display in Timișoara for an exhibition looking at the ...

If you asked most people what happened to Pompeii after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, many would say that life completely stopped until the 16th century, based on widespread images of preserved ...

Italian scientists have deciphered part of an ancient scroll rendered unreadable by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying Pompeii under some 30 feet of ash. But Pompeii's story didn't end there, according to fresh findings highlighted by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, along with six other blesseds, they will see not just the eleva ...

In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.