While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., archaeologists recently uncovered drawings of an intense gladiator battle on a ...

around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman was immediately labelled, by the archaeologists who uncovered her, as the man’s wife.

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

The band’s 1972 crowd-free concert movie captures their trippy transition from psych trailblazers to prog superstars ...

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two ... Researchers say even the jewelry on their bodies and the folds of their clothing were represented ...

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. Two sites are of particular ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...