A Roman wall at Pompeii in southern Italy has collapsed, local archaeologists said Friday, in the latest in a series of accidents at the ancient city buried by a volcanic explosion 2,000 years ago.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, including exotic animal bones, vitrified brains, erotic art, and children ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure -- a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a ...

and caused a wall to collapse, and that had basically crushed him to death," Sophie Hay, an archaeologist at Pompeii, told the BBC. "The woman was still alive while he was dying — imagine the ...

when an architect building a subterranean aqueduct came across a buried building with frescoes on the wall. Further single buildings were unearthed in 1689 and 1693, but because Pompeii had lain ...

A tiny house full of exquisite frescos has been discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii. While the home is modest in size, researchers say that its decorations—including erotic scenes—are ...

Archaeologists have found the skeleton remains of a man and a woman at the ancient site of Pompeii — the woman ... the room and died when the perimeter wall collapsed on him during an early ...

Tourists walk along the Via dell'Abbondanza, one of Pompeii's major streets ... and those of his two daughters—onto the wall. He had also written out the date: August 7, 2024.

A 37-year-old British tourist is facing substantial fines after being caught carving his family's initials into a wall at the ancient site of Pompeii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Italy.

Scientists discovered two skeletons in the ruins of a Pompeii building and concluded that their deaths must have been caused by wall collapses triggered by earthquakes. CREDIT: Pompeii ...

Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered "violent" cartoons, roughly 2,000 years old, drawn by children in ancient Rome. The Archaeological Park of Pompeii announced the discovery on May 28.