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On August 24, AD 79, Pompeii woke to what seemed like another peaceful summer day (the Pompeii Archaeological Park notes, ...

A pop art installation featuring more than 30 sculptures from artist Philip Colbert is the first contemporary sculpture exhibition to land in Pompeii in three decades ...

Square holes in Pompeii's northern walls may be the only battlefield evidence of the polybolos, a rapid-fire dart launcher ...

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A bronze statue at Pompeii's Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O'Keeffe via Flickr) Earlier this month, the University of Chicago Press published the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of Pompeii with Mount Vesuvius in the background. - SimonSkafar/Getty Images The once-thriving Roman city of ...

Scientists have discovered what the doomed city of Pompeii smelled like before it was buried by the catastrophic eruption of ...

Tom 'Loki' Hiddleston returns to Pompeii, a place he visited as a teenager that became unforgettable to him, to tell the story of possible survivors.

Many buildings never fully recovered. Archaeological evidence proves Pompeii entered a permanent survival state after 62 CE. Landowners quietly transformed ruined neighborhoods. The 62 CE earthquake, ...

A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged accent tables topped by decorative bowls. These latest discoveries by archaeologists are enriching ...

Pompeii is the city of the long goodbye. In A.D. 62, a major earthquake toppled buildings, causing severe damage, harbinger of what was to come. Seventeen years later, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius ...