Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has greenlit a documentary series spotlighting a once-in-a-generation Pompeii dig from Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb producer Lion TV. All3Media-owned Lion has gained access to a huge ...

The body of the man, believed to be in his 60s, was found in a tomb which dated to the final decades of Pompeii, before it was destroyed by the Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD.

An inscription of the tomb suggested that its owner, a freed slave named Marcus Venerius Secundio, helped organize performances in Greek in Pompeii.

The Laosi ruins – known as China's Pompeii – are located in the Hunan Province and include ancient tombs, pavilions, streets, walls and stone sculptures -- more than 12,000 relics in all.

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new ...

Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes ...