The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a necropolis in the Porta Sarno region of Pompeii, according to two April 1 ...

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 ...

Pompeii (Naples), May 29 - The last man left fleeing from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD ... and Vicolo delle Nozze d'Argento. "We found it in an opening where there may have been a fountain ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending ...

the eruption of Mount Vesuvius stopped artists in the middle of their work, and its volcanic ash preserved the materials they left behind. Photos show the variety of pigments found at Pompeii.

The architecture, artwork and history of Pompeii have been studied and researched for decades, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still more to learn. Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption ...