A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

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Pompeii, a name synonymous with a moment frozen in time, continues to yield incredible secrets, two thousand years after ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more.

The Pompeii site said it had excavated in recent weeks a nearly life-size frieze depicting the ... Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting", ... When Vesuvius erupted, ...

Discoveries continue to be made at Pompeii two millennia after the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius. Earlier this month, scientists digitally "unrolled" and began to read one of the Herculaneum ...

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Pompeii family's desperate survival attempt during the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, revealing how victims barricaded themselves as disaster struck.

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a door with a bed during Vesuvius's terrible eruption.

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted with tremendous force, burying the nearby Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum—and possibly around 16,000 people—under ash and pumice.

Roman art showing Helen of Troy discovered in Pompeii 2,000 years after volcanic eruption. Anthony ... The city was buried in debris in 79 A.D. after the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano killing ...