Visiting Pompeii with kids is like taking a step back in time ... and Pantheon, who were all art history graduates with a wealth of knowledge (and great personalities.) That isn’t just a ...

The 20 years since I last visited Pompeii feel like a long time to me, but are less than a blink of an eye in this city’s fabled history. I was younger, single and childless. Now I’m older ...

Earthquake activity as damaging as the eruption of Mount Vesuvius bears part of the blame for the total devastation of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 A.D., new research suggests.

History books mention the city for the first time in 310 BCE when Romans attacked it for the second time, but it was not until 80 BCE that the people of Pompeii became Roman citizens. This vibrant ...

Pompeii was completely decimated in a now-infamous volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. that's remembered as one of the deadliest of its kind in known history. Historians say 2,000 people died in Pompeii ...

“Pompeii is a really seductive site,” Emmerson said. “It can easily make us think that people in the past were just like us, and in some ways, yes, humans are the same across history ...

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex ...

Hundreds of years after the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was rediscovered, archaeologists are still uncovering incredible finds. This week a team of archaeologists revealed they had found the ...