One moment, Pompeii was alive with trade and laughter. The next, it was frozen in ash - a Roman city caught in the grip of ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic ...

Pompeii was supposed to be the city that froze in a day: August 24, 79 CE, Vesuvius roared, ash rained down, and life simply stopped. However, archaeologists working in the so-called Insula ...

Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left by Pompeii's earlier residents in the rubble.

After Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii’s ruins housed survivors, wanderers, and treasure hunters Romans didn't completely abandon the ruins—but it didn’t sound pleasant.

After the eruption, Pompeii became a fragile camp-like site, inhabited without Roman infrastructure, as people lived among the ruins until the fifth century.

The ancient Italian city of Pompeii soon experienced a second life after it was blanketed by pumice and ash from the Mount Vesuvius eruption of AD 79, say experts.

New excavations at Pompeii reveal that the city was reinhabited by survivors for centuries after the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption.

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins, the directors of the famous site said ...

Still, it is clear that post-79 CE Pompeii was a shadow of its former self and the city was never fully restored to its former glory. Life there was, almost literally, post-apocalyptic.

New evidence suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city was devastated by a volcanic eruption.

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins, the directors of the famous site ...