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THE luxurious but tragedy-stricken villa where the first Roman emperor, Augustus, is believed to have died has been unearthed ...

Archaeologists have found 2 male bodies in the Suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, approximately 700 meters North-west of ...

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To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

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A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread was the lifeblood of the masses. Like many modern-day politicians, ancient ...

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.

Archaeologists long thought these two embracing bodies found at Pompeii were sisters, a mother and daughter, or lovers. Ancient DNA analysis revealed both to be young people, and one of them is male.