While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life ... Archaeologists found the statues at the top of a huge mausoleum featuring and entry wall, at ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life ... Shaman in Ancient Grave Archaeologists found the statues at the top of a huge mausoleum featuring ...

A bronze statue of Apollo dating to the first ... much remains to be found and studied; about a third of the city of Pompeii remains buried, a good thing since ancient sites become vulnerable ...

Since 1998, researchers have found evidence of over 50 cremation burials in the necropolis. The current excavation, called "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii," has been ongoing ...

The sculptures were found inside a large funerary monument built into a wall of burial niches in the Porta Sarno necropolis. The tomb is part of a site under ongoing excavation by the Pompeii ...

Regio V', at the corner between Vicolo dei Balconi (the alleyway that the Pompeii archaeological team brought to light just over a week ago) and Vicolo delle Nozze d'Argento. "We found it in an ...

In the ancient city of Pompeii, a newly excavated tomb revealed statues of a married couple. Tristan de Boer via Unsplash The architecture, artwork and history of Pompeii have been studied and ...