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

Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

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

A new study suggests Pompeii may have faced an ancient Greek "machine gun" from the island of Rhodes during Sulla’s Roman ...

Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.

Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of the Egyptian blue pigment and the hours of labor required to prepare it ...

Mysterious damage patterns on a 2,000-year-old fortress are rewriting what we know about Roman firepower. If the ancient ...

A new permanent exhibition at Pompeii tells the full story of the ancient city’s destruction through casts, and accessible ...

Bastille’s 2013 hit 'Pompeii,' once the most-streamed song of all time in the UK, has surpassed two billion streams on Spotify.

Some Italian dishes require special skills to be executed to perfection. The meatball is one of these, and these experts are ...

A growing number of researchers are turning to the Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ...