Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79. After Mount Vesuvius erupted, Romans ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

We’d just spent the morning exploring the quiet and well-preserved Herculaneum ruins before hopping onto a Circumvesuviana ...

Forget Florence and Venice if you want to uncover the smaller gems in Italy that will have you booking a return trip in no ...

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.

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Archaeologists discover a bench in Pompeii opposite the Villa of the Mysteries that reveals Roman social and political life.

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...