Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

We need to have backups already in place before disaster strikes, whether that’s warehouses in different towns, top-notch ...

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and ...

Pompeii alone is believed to have been inhabited by about 20,000 people. Most escaped. But archaeologists estimate that about 2000 lingered too long, or decided to ride the disaster out.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Pompeii family's desperate survival attempt during the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, revealing how victims barricaded themselves as disaster struck.

Pompeii was also afflicted with human corruption, with the Camorra—the Neapolitan Mafia—exerting influence over its custodial ranks and on the local businesses that catered to the 2.3 million ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman ...

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