In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

Will polyester underwear, just one item among the 92 million tons of textiles cast aside every year, squashed in layers of strata over millennia, be recognizable as clothing to future archaeologists?

In this ranking of the 40 oldest landmarks in the world, we count down from the relatively young to the truly ancient, showcasing places that ... the eruption of Mount Vesuvius engulfed the Roman ...

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Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans, a study said. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii The ruins of Pompeii ...