Pompeii was entombed and forgotten. Then the ruins were discovered in the late 16th century by Dominico Fontana, an architect. But it wasn’t until the 18th century that major excavations began. Today ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

The vast and varied landscape of the United States is dotted with remarkable geological features, many of which have their origins buried deep in the Earth’s tumultuous volcanic past. Though many of ...

Since its discovery in the late 16th century, excavations of Pompeii's ruins have continued to shed light on the city's incredible life before it was buried by volcanic ash in 79 AD. A new ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting a man and a woman, Ancient Origins reported. The statues were ...

Later this month, the funerary reliefs will go on display at the Pompeii Archaeological Park as part of an exhibition titled Being a Woman in Ancient Pompeii. Visitors will have the opportunity to ...

In the future, the statues will be displayed as a part of the larger Being a Woman in Ancient Pompeii exhibition, set to open on April 16. The public will be able to view live-time restoration of ...

but both the depth and the nature of the volcanic material covering Pompeii made it a much easier site to excavate). And Pompeii would provide another kind of window into the ancient world ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...

The city you are building in Before The Ash is Pompeii, the Roman burg that was destroyed by the ... After a few minutes of this, you'll wonder how you ever managed without a neighbouring volcano.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...