Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding ... Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended ...

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex ...

We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

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.

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting ...

A couple found in Pompeii desperately clung to their gold ... are providing clues to scientists as to who they were. The bodies were found inside a small, makeshift bedroom in a villa that was ...