Most of the things to do in Pompeii will delight archaeology and history fans. You could spend an entire day exploring and ...

Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury villa in Roman London.

Rare, centuries-old Roman paintings were uncovered in the ruins of Pompeii. The frescoes were found in a dining room in the ruined city buried under ash after a catastrophic volcanic eruption in ...

Pompeii is the gift that keeps giving – and there are so many more treasures to come As incredible new discoveries are found at the archaeological site, Professor of classics Michael Scott and ...

In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 20 feet of ash, preserving amazing details about daily life in the Roman Empire.

This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the Shell in Pompeii, depicts the goddess being born from a seashell.

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and some that have yet to be found.

Ancient Pompeii home with 'untouched' frescoes of mythological scenes uncovered by archaeologists 2,000 years after being buried in volcanic rubble By TARYN PEDLER Published: 18:24 EDT, 24 October ...

One of Pompeii's insulas is named for this fresco of the Chaste Lovers, which was found over 100 years ago. Paolo Manzo/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

The god Apollo attempts to seduce the seeress Cassandra with his lyre, in this scene from Homer’s epic poems found in a private banquet room. Picture: Archaeological Park of Pompeii/AFP ...