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

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

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

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

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

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

An exceptional discovery in northern China has revealed a 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved under volcanic ash.

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

In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the revolt, launching a full-scale siege of the ill-fated city. Led by Lucius ...

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 ...

Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.