The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

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Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Should the eruption occur during the day, then ash could block out the sun for 'hours', with Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...