New DNA evidence challenges the story of Pompeii's Two Maidens, once thought to be female relatives, scientists now call them ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park near Naples will set a limit on the amount of people who are visiting the ancient location after ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

Artifacts from the frozen city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., are on display ...

I love exploring the world of ancient Rome, with its grand architecture, fascinating culture, and stories of larger-than-life ...

New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the ...

But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby Roman settlements off the map. The ash spewed by the volcano coated ...

Located near present-day Naples, this ancient city was buried and preserved under ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii remained buried for more than ...