Most of the things to do in Pompeii will delight archaeology and history fans. You could spend an entire day exploring and ...

But Pompeii, a well-preserved and unedited snapshot into that moment in time, gives archeologists insight into what the city really was like. "We can start to see what they, at the time, didn't ...

We had just uncovered stunning frescos inspired by the Trojan War painted on the splendid black walls of a banqueting hall during our excavation in insula 10 of Regio IX at Pompeii.

In Ancient Pompeii, Dinner Surrounded by Myth A frescoed dining room is the latest find in an excavation campaign to shore up an area of the site, which was destroyed by a powerful volcanic ...

Archeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said on Thursday.

Y ou might think a site that has been excavated since the 18th century has little left to surprise us with. But Pompeii is the gift that just keeps on giving. Partly because – despite how long ...

Proto-pizza might be more like it, given that the city of Pompeii was buried by a volcano in 79 A.D., nearly 2,000 years before anything modern civilization might recognize as a pie came into ...

Amazing art has been discovered in the ruins of a house in Pompeii, an ancient Roman city. These frescos - paintings done on fresh plaster so that they set to the wall - show figures from Greek ...

The ancient Roman city of Pompeii was decimated in 79 CE when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing thousands of people in the city and nearby settlements of Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae.

A "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in Pompeii after lying hidden for 2,000 years. Archaeologists have discovered a huge private bathhouse - likely the biggest complex in the city ...

Image | Pompeii drawings. Caption: Gabriel Zuchtriegel says they can guess this child's age by the size of the handprint traced on the wall. (Archaeological Park of Pompeii) ...