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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Scientists are monitoring Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska amid eruption fears which could cause disruption in the region.

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

City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

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

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii uncovered a life-size funerary relief at the Porta Sarno necropolis, depicting a man and a woman ...

Two rare and almost life-seized statues have been discover during the digging of a massive tomb in Pompeii, Italy.According ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has erupted repeatedly for more than a year again belched lava and smoke into the air, ...

Pink Floyd's Nick Mason discusses the re-release of the band's 'Live at Pompeii' concert film and reflects on the group's legacy.