In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (valid for 24 hours) and you can visit all three in one day. It doesn't include a visit to the ...

Gardens feature in every genre of Roman literature, from obscene epigrams to dry agricultural treatises, though often in the background or on the margins – as the setting for Cicero’s philosophical ...