The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once ...

And as we got to Pompeii’s central point, the Forum, with a temple to Jupiter at one end and Vesuvius looming in the background, we were reminded how abruptly the life of that city ended 1943 ...

Archeological excavations of Pompeii continue to shed light on the daily lives of ancient Romans.

A discovery of a carbonised bread-ring leaves us with many unanswered questions, but one culinary archaeologist has traced its roots and recreated its recipe.

As I was traveling along the streets of Pompeii, it hit me. Back then, roads there were paved with a stone that wears away relatively quickly, leaving ruts. Romans used iron to fill the holes.

-In the streets of Pompeii, carts were moving constantly up and down the streets, filling them with the activity of daily life.-The paved streets still bear the scars of all those ancient wheels.

Dr. Ausilia Trapani is an archaeologist at the Applied Research Laboratory at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. As I saw the images—the first time in 2,000 years that anyone had laid eyes on ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the locals adjusted their business operations ...

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The fiery ash and pumice quickly clogged the streets and rose up the walls. ... Pompeii alone is believed to have been inhabited by about 20,000 people. Most escaped.

Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe for almost 2,000 years. ... POMPEII, Italy — For the first time in 19 centuries, a breath of life is wafting through the ghostly streets of Pompeii.

Centuries before ash covered the streets of Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried life in this ancient village in Italy, according to researchers.