Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

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

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

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

The preserved Roman city of Pompeii will have new visitor limits to combat overtourism and protect the archeological park.

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

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

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman ... ancestry and genetic relationships between the victims. A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples in Italy ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the air, slowly killing most of the ...