Nestled in the Italian countryside, the abandoned 18th-century Palazzo Chigi-Albani tells a story of faded grandeur and ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

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In 1971, though, Pink Floyd became the subject of their own cult-classic concert film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, in which they performed three songs beneath the sweltering Italian sun ...

The Government has confirmed it will table a counter motion of confidence in Ms Murphy, Harry McGee reports. Taoiseach Micheál Martin also accused the Opposition of employing “undemocratic ...

A rare megalography from the first century BC has just been uncovered in Pompeii, a site that never ceases to reveal extraordinary finds. A few kilometers to the north, in Pozzuoli, the Macellum — ...

In the wake of the midsized earthquakes that struck Pompeii in 62 C.E., the city’s affluent residents got to work redecorating. Much like today, they outsourced the task to others: painting ...

Reluctantly, he agreed to tour the property: a 3,500-square-foot apartment on the piano nobile, or second floor, of a 17th-century palazzo. As he walked around the main hall — a “very scruffy ...

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 ...

The museum’s current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished in the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.