As archaeologists continue with their excavation of the Roman city doomed by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, The Times ...

After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash before they eventually decayed. Since the mid 1800s, the voids that these bodies left ...

Thanks to an ancient text and specialized scanning technology, researchers say they have solved the mystery of Plato’s burial ...

These small primates have the largest eyes of any mammal, relative to their body size. Each eye is about the same volume as the animal's brain. Trilobites lived between 521 and 252 million years ago.

Horses have always held particular significance in Ancient Greece and played an even larger role in its mythological history.

The city of Pompeii uniquely captures the public's imagination ... that is at the heart of our fascination - how did those bodies become frozen in time? For the first time, the BBC has been ...

Episode 1: “The Bodies” premieres Wednesday, May 15 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV - Archaeologists embark on the biggest dig in a generation at Pompeii. Told through the drama of the dig, imagine what life ...

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a so-called ‘pizza’, and make a grisly discovery.

As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate how many people died, the event was said to be 'exceptional' and the ...

Although Pompeii has been almost constantly excavated ... Archaeologists also retrieved a number of bodies of people who were not fortunate enough to escape the deadly eruption, including 11 ...

Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous ... Termination Suit Doctor shares what happens to our bodies moments before we die Peter Frampton rocks on despite ...

Smithsonian contributor Jo Marchant tells us about the yearslong campaign to read these scrolls. And Youssef Nader—one of the ...