LA is a modern-day Pompeii and in 50 years could be the world’s first ghost megalopolis. Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun.

Italian archaeologists digging in Pompeii uncovered a 2,000-year-old fresco featuring what looks remarkably like a modern-day pizza– and some believe it might actually be a direct ancestor of ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

ONE OF my favourite history stories from primary school days is that of Pompeii. Sign in My Account Sign out ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii said Tuesday they had found what might have been the precursor to the modern-day pizza depicted on ...

According to his account, Pliny the Elder was then a fleet commander at Misenum - modern day Miseno - across the bay from Pompeii. He took a ship to stage a rescue for those in danger from the ...

Vast swathes of the eastern part of the city lie abandoned, gradually reverting to nature like a modern-day industrial Pompeii. Last year, Mr Bing released a report proposing that sections of ...

In conjunction with the Pompeii exhibit, the museum center’s Omnimax theater will also be showing the documentary "Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation," which includes a segment filmed at modern ...

MEGAN THOMPSON: Two-and-a-half million people visit Pompeii every year, making it one of Italy's busiest tourist attractions. The ancient city, close to modern-day Naples, is famous for being ...