Investigators making the shocking find saw that the remains had dark substances inside the cavity that resembled obsidian.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

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

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

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

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

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...