A stunning fresco discovered in Pompeii depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter and Leda, the Greek mythical queen ...

Discoveries continue to be made at Pompeii two millennia after the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius. Earlier this month, scientists digitally "unrolled" and began to read one of the Herculaneum ...

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 – ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

At Pompeii, south of the volcano, the currents were cooler ... causing some supporting walls to crumble as well. After 17 hours, the debris in Pompeii was up to nine feet thick.

Pompeii was buried in volcanic ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The corpses of Pompeii residents were famously preserved in a protect casing of ash within which they slowly decayed.

what I was either an eye-witness to myself or received immediately after the accident ... have turned them to ash in an instant. In Pompeii, other death methods included being crushed by a hail of ...

But at Pompeii, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius stopped artists in the middle of their work, and its volcanic ash preserved the materials they left behind. Photos show the variety of pigments found ...

Discoveries continue to be made at Pompeii two millennia after the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius. Earlier this month, scientists digitally "unrolled" and began to read one of the Herculaneum ...

Robert Cadger, 47, was last seen on Monday, March 10, after he visited the historic archaeological site, Pompeii, during a getaway to Naples. The labourer from Menstrie, Clackmannanshire ...