The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – Pompeii” coin, featuring a dramatic 10mm high-relief rendering of the volcano ...

while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls.

around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman was immediately labelled, by the archaeologists who uncovered her, as the man’s wife.