Archaeologists uncover a lavish private bathhouse in Pompeii, revealing the city's opulence and the tragic final moments of its inhabitants.
An immersive new exhibition in Australia uses artifacts, sounds and projections to recreate the ancient Roman city ...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the scolding lava, ash, and gas that poured from its entrails converted the Roman city of Pompeii into a terrifying snapshot of death and destruction. Two ...
ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the ...
Recently, archeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry shop, two villas and the bones of three people.
Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...
The excavation of a sumptuously decorated bathhouse in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city eerily preserved by volcanic ash from ...
Elite ancient Romans would treat their guests to relaxing thermal baths when they came to enjoy the merriment of a large ...
Recent efforts to update a gas pipeline south of Naples have turned up a trove of ancient artifacts spanning thousands of ...