After the eruption, Pompeii became a fragile camp-like site, inhabited without Roman infrastructure, as people lived among ...

New excavations at Pompeii reveal that the city was reinhabited by survivors for centuries after the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption.

The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be ...

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

The new movie from the rising writer-director, shot in Sangerhausen, which explores "the alchemy of encounter" amid "a ...

H istory depends on the written word. But how can a historian interpret a text if its authorship or age are uncertain, and ...

Brent Seales, heritage science chair in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, ...

The city long seen as a gritty stopover is stepping into the spotlight with a reopened metro line, blockbuster exhibitions, ...

Video Courtesy of Pigman College of EngineeringBrent Seales, heritage science chair in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in constant danger of being wiped out - and, in many ways, it is.