Mt. Vesuvius preserved the shapes of its victims at Pompeii. But while those shapes remain at the site today, bones and teeth are all that's left of the people inside. Albany Football Star AJ ...

The discoveries were released on April 11 by the Pompeii Archaeological Park. It showed multiple remarkably preserved frescos that had been buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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 ...

Archaeologists conducting ongoing excavations at the historical site of Pompeii have unearthed miraculously preserved paintings within a large banquet hall. Pompeii Sites reported the astonishing ...

‘Black room’ with frescoes inspired by Trojan war described as one of most striking discoveries ever made at site in southern Italy A banquet room replete with well preserved frescoes ...

Ancient Pompeii has never ceased to astonish. During one of the very earliest excavations there, in 1772, participants were stunned by the impressions left in the hard debris by the bodies of ...

while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

Nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in volcanic ash, Pompeii is turning up yet more breathtaking ancient splendours. Archaeologists working at the site have uncovered perfectly preserved fresco ...

A banquet room replete with well preserved frescoes depicting characters inspired by the Trojan war has been unearthed among the ruins of Pompeii in what has been described as one of the most ...