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

New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...

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

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

One if Italy's most important historical sites was an amazing experience but there was one annoying mistake I made that left ...

Or are we shying away from the basic facts of life and ... in the Egypt exhibition. The Pompeii exhibition is accompanied by an animated eruption of Mount Vesuvius, complete with visualizations ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced the discovery of ancient murals that shed light on the ...

Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of ...

The recent scientific analysis of a mysterious painting that hung in a church in Pompeii for centuries has revealed it to be by the Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. A depiction of Christ’s ...

Another nearby volcano that erupted in 2009, Mount Readout, showed volcanic tremor for two months before it blew its top. "If we see [tremor]," Haney said, "that will be the next sign that Spurr ...