It wasn’t until the 18th century that Pompeii and the nearby city of Herculaneum were unearthed with ancient artifacts, ...

Excavators in Pompeii recently unearthed the remains of two more victims of the ancient volcanic eruption that encased the lost Roman city in ash and debris. Archaeologists said their skeletons were ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has become the most famous volcanic eruption in history. This is largely thanks to Pompeii, the Roman city destroyed during the eruption and frozen in time, ...

Archaeologists have shed new light on the destruction of Pompeii after finding two human skeletons crushed beneath the ruins of a fallen building. The two men are believed to have died in an ...

Archeologists in Pompeii have unearthed the remains of a man and a woman who died trapped in the room of a home during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The discovery was made in Region IX, ...

Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago. The research team used portable ...

Welcome back to The Deep Dive where we surprise and intrigue you with a brand-new timely topic explored every Tuesday. This week we’re taking a deep dive into the Roman city of Pompeii. August 24 ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history, killing up to 16,000 people. Now, researchers have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the ...

Ok, with respect to Pompeii, I am a bit confused. I always read in school that Herculaneum got the worst of the pyroclastic flows and Pompeii was subject to more gradual burial under a rain of fine ...

The ruins of Pompeii continue to produce fascinating pieces of history that tell scientists more about the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. The latest find reported by archaeologists ...