Archaeologists in Italy’s Valle dei Templi have uncovered ancient Greek baths, pottery kilns, and early Christian tombs in a ...

In the aftermath of the blast, art historian Gregory Buchakjian published an article identifying two paintings in the ...

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

The discovery was made at a London development site which had already yielded stunning mosaics and a rare Roman mausoleum.

The South London borough has "always been seen as the scruffier, rough-around-the-edges" part of the capital, said The Times, ...

The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., burying Pompeii in ash and pumice, it preserved a peerless body of frescos as well as evidence of the city’s paint workshops.

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced the discovery of ancient murals that shed light on the region’s mysteries.