For centuries, the destruction of Pompeii has been dated to August 24 in the year 79 CE, a figure drawn almost entirely from ...

Excavators working in Pompeii’s Regio IX district have documented a Roman construction site that was still active when Mount ...

Three archaeological marvels at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, have reopened to the public following a 40-year conservation effort. Calling it a ...

The archaeologists behind the video believe the man covered his head with a bowl to protect himself from volcanic debris.

Long before electricity, Roman engineers embedded reflective marble into Pompeii's basalt roads to safely guide nighttime ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

When we think of the murals in domestic spaces in Pompeii, we typically think of extravagant banqueting rooms or lavish columned atriums. But researchers have concluded that even “tiny houses” in the ...

A bronze statue at Pompeii's Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O'Keeffe via Flickr) Earlier this month, the University of Chicago Press published the ...

A newly uncovered fresco in Pompeii tells the story of women, wine and Roman hedonism. Buried beneath the spectacle lies a ...

Tom Hiddleston teams up with National Geographic to reveal Pompeii’s story like never before. Over 1000 years after Mt. Vesuvius buried the city in ash, he uncovers remarkable survival tales, tracing ...

After the eruption, Pompeii became a fragile camp-like site, inhabited without Roman infrastructure, as people lived among the ruins until the fifth century. The Archaeological Park of Pompeii ...