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

A horse recently found trapped in the ashes of a suburban Pompeii villa was just the tip of the equestrian iceberg. Since that discovery was announced last week, archaeologists have revealed that ...

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

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the large fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, a new one has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in Italy. An almost life-size frieze ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet ...

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The frescoes feature vibrant yellow panels, a rare design choice in Roman wall painting, framed by bold black intervals and richly decorated with images of birds, fruit, flowers, and lyres.

Pompeii (Naples), May 29 - The last man left fleeing from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD seems to have looked his horrible end in the face as a 300-kilogram boiling mass hit him head on. In ...

San Jose galleon, which sank in 1708, was loaded with gold, silver and emeralds worth billions ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in ...