A forgotten stone staircase in the ruins of Pompeii has turned out to be anything but a dead end, opening a fresh line of ...

OXFORD — Archaeologists announced the discovery of a pair of victims tied to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which destroyed the city of Pompeii in 79 AD. This new find comes just less than two weeks ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The doomed occupants of Pompeii may have been sweating even before Mount Vesuvius began spewing deadly volcanic debris on ...

In the popular imagination, life at Pompeii came to an abrupt and violent end after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Its pristine frescoes, well-preserved buildings, and petrified bodies seem ...

A new exhibit from Italy that opened Friday at New York's Discovery Times Square captures the last gasp of the ancient city of Pompeii before it was buried under volcanic ash, mud and rock when Mount ...

This week brings us to the anniversary of one of the greater disasters in the ancient world, and with it a few insights into the religious world of the first century, when pagans and Christians first ...

It is the day of public mourning, with funerals celebrated in the sanctuary (10 AM) by Bishop Tommaso Caputo. It is the ...

It’s been nearly 2,000 years since Vesuvius’ eruption buried the vibrant Roman city of Pompeii under a deadly blanket of ash. The eerie ruins and the famous casts of Pompeii represent an invaluable ...

The research project RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage), funded by ...