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

Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. Experts say the newly discovered ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

In the wake of the midsized earthquakes that struck Pompeii in 62 C.E., the city ... comprehensively detailing the pigments comprising Roman paints, researchers write, is that conservators ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

According to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the frescoes feature life-sized depictions ... the stratovolcano erupted about 5 miles outside the Roman town during the first century, burying ...