In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

As the offensive unfolds, a British Army hospital at Pompeii, the closest large medical ... and saws to repair the largest bones in the body was unheard of, but Stimson, tall, broad-shouldered ...

There’s also a little office just outside the train station with an official-looking sign offering tickets – ignore it, the actual official ... sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum are both very moving ...

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 ...

The sight of the Floyd playing in Pompeii’s empty amphitheatre, superimposed by images of Roman statues and friezes, and — shudder — the petrified bodies of the fallen after Vesuvius’s ...

Immanuel Hoxobeb assists children participating in the "Enabling Through the Horse," therapy program outside Windhoek, Namibia, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

Why don’t humans have hair all over their bodies like other animals? – Murilo, age 5, Brazil Have you ever wondered why you don’t have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog ...

And we wholeheartedly agree, yet this time around we’re planning to get our Floyd fix in the cinema as “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII” will be shown in movie theaters throughout the Bay ...

In 1971, though, Pink Floyd became the subject of their own cult-classic concert film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, in which they performed three songs beneath the sweltering Italian sun ...