Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli began making plaster casts in the 1860s—more than a century after the excavation of ...

Inside a Lost City”, is an object lesson in the role that presentism plays in our contemporary understanding of the world, ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Using an X-ray, Llorenç and his team examine the bones hidden in Pompeii's plaster casts. The scan of one individual reveals striation on the knee, indicating the person suffered from osteoarthritis.

Pompeii, April 6 - A cast of two embracing figures taken at Pompeii is that of two male lovers, Superintendent Massimo Osanna said after new findings Thursday. "Pompeii never ceases to amaze," he ...

Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 – its stories and secrets have captivated locals, tourists ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...