Pompeii didn't begin with the Romans. It was fundamentally an Oscan city, also influenced by the Etruscans and Greeks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii did not end with the volcanic eruption of 79 AD. New data and traces uncovered during ...

Italy's Mount Vesuvius famously erupted in AD 79, killing thousands of people and leaving the nearby city of Pompeii in ruins. According to popular narrative, in the following 1,500 years until its ...

(CNN) — The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever ...

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...

The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While ...

A new exhibition shows the last desperate moments of Pompeii's residents after they were engulfed by deadly volcanic ash, leaving their poses preserved in stone for centuries. The eruption of Italy's ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...