The ancient story likely no longer held any religious value for Pompeii residents and served merely as a decoration and ...

St. Louis Science Center Special Exhibitions Manager Kaylia Eskew shared what to expect artifacts and experience to expect ...

The skeletal remains of four people, most likely members of the same ... in the 18th century carried out rudimentary excavations of Pompeii that disturbed the skeletal remains of the victims ...

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A new Pompeii excavation revealed details about family members who barricaded themselves with a bed during the Mt. Vesuvius ...

THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is largely considered to be one of the worst in history – incinerating or suffocating thousands of people living at the base of it. And ...

Mademoiselle Nobs was actually the Meddle song Seamus, which originally featured Humble Pie guitarist/vocalist Steve Marriott’s pet collie howling along to a slow blues, but now with an Afghan hound ...

During a recent excavation of a house in Pompeii, the remains of four people, including a child, were discovered alongside a bed that had been moved to block a bedroom door in what was likely the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used ...

But how did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence? A new study argues that this was largely due to the labor of enslaved people, who were indispensable to the city’s growth ...