A little less than 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius became the antihero of the ancient world’s most well-known tragedy. The ...

Director Zuchtriegel: Pompeii is fragile — we’re inspecting the site after this morning’s seismic swarm to quickly assess any damage across the area. In conjunction with a seismic swarm in the Campi ...

New fifteenth- and sixteenth-century finds rekindle the mystery of Pompeii: the city was not forgotten after the eruption, but lived on in local memory. View on euronews ...

Was Pompeii named after Pompey? Was there a tsunami in Pompeii? Why was Pompeii bombed in WWII? Join Historian & Author Daisy ...

Pompeii wasn't just buried in ash and forgotten for centuries until the 16th century. Archaeologists say new findings support the idea that people resettled among the ruins of the Roman city after ...

Though only fragments of the panel portraying Dionysus and Ariadne have survived, its reconstruction was possible through comparison with other ancient works.

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the ...

On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

Over 160 artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are headed to the Dallas Museum of Art in December.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

An excavation just north of Pompeii has unearthed a large and almost entirely intact ceremonial chariot. The find is unique in the history of archaeological digs in Italy, say experts with the ...

Archaeologists working in Pompeii recently unearthed the tomb and partially mummified remains of a man who died a few decades before the eruption. The man, Marcus Venerius Secundio, according to his ...