Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum -- which opens Thursday and runs ...

While you cannot see Pompeii in one day (we only saw 10 percent of the ruins) with our limited time, we headed to another ruined Roman settlement, called Herculaneum (Ercolo in Italian), which was ...

Secrets of Pompeii and Herculaneum to go on display in new British Museum exhibition. By TRAVELMAIL REPORTER . Published: 06:05 EDT, 21 September 2012 | Updated: 06:05 EDT, 21 September 2012 ...

The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii’s ruins in 1752, have long beguiled scientists. Written on papyrus using carbon-based ink, the scrolls cannot be physically opened ...

Pompeii's ruins weren't discovered until the 18th century. Their remarkable level of preservation and the subsequent ...

In the ruins of Herculaneum, an Ancient Roman city on the west coast of Italy that was buried by Mount Vesuvius's catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D., researchers made a startling discovery: a human ...

Even though Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., archeologists continue to make fascinating discoveries in the Italian ruins of Pompeii to this day. The latest are a man and a woman.

The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii’s ruins in 1752, have long beguiled scientists. Written on papyrus using carbon-based ink, the scrolls cannot be physically opened ...