Advanced chemical analysis has identified 2500-year-old honey in ancient Greek pots from a Paestum burial shrine near Pompeii ...

Pompeii: Portents of Disaster By Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Last updated 2011-03-29 ...

In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash, freezing Roman life in time. This disaster still haunts history nearly 2,000 years later.

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under metres of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount ...

Newly discovered graffiti at the Pompeii archeological site could settle an old academic debate about the exact date of the Vesuvius eruption, rewriting the history of one of the ancient world’s ...

Archaeologists work at a burial site where a partially mumified skeleton was discovered in this undated photo obtained Aug., 17, 2021, in Pompeii, Italy.

Does a newly discovered fresco in Pompeii show the world's first pizza? Probably not Two-thousand-year-old still life looks like a pizza, but at the time, tomatoes were centuries away from Italy ...

A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified as honey thanks to ...