Experts say the frescoes on the walls of an ancient banquet hall in Pompeii are among the finest ever found in the city ...

You've probably heard of Pompeii. That long-lost, ancient city, destroyed by one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...

One if Italy's most important historical sites was an amazing experience but there was one annoying mistake I made that left ...

as much as third of the lost city, equating to 22 hectares, has still to be cleared of volcanic debris. An initial study of the new discovery has been published in the E-Journal of the Pompeii ...

It has been nearly 2,000 years since the ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed, but a recent study sheds new light on how the city and its inhabitants may have met their demise. While conventional ...

One of the exhibits of “Pompeii: Inside a Lost City” at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. (Image credit: Martin Ollman / National Museum of Australia) Of the nearly one hundred ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

said the director of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel. The once-thriving city of Pompeii and the surrounding countryside in southern Italy were submerged by ash when Mount Vesuvius exploded ...

He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ... directs excavations at the two lost cities.