Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ... were about 100 years old when the volcano erupted. "Both the frieze in the ...

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

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

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

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

A group of Herriman high school band students are headed to the "Olympics" of percussion competition just three years after ...

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The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...