Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved skeleton at a burial site in Pompeii which has shed new light on funeral rites and cultural activity in the doomed, ancient Roman city, ...

ROME— Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it ...

PHOENIX — Pompeii: The Exhibition, a traveling show, is set to return to the Arizona Science Center on Saturday and transport ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...

UNESCO World Heritage destinations unite to share knowledge, improve conservation, and inspire travellers through living ...

For some of its denizens, Pompeii in early 79 AD was a great place to live: The wealthy owned marble statuary, had state-of-the-art central heating, and dined sumptuously off the fat of the land. On ...

This Wednesday, the World Erotic Art Museum will present proof that time travel is possible. It will take us back to sixth-century B.C. Pompeii, a city that prospered before tragically meeting its ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the ...

The Greeks first colonized the Bay of Naples and the various cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum that studded its sun-kissed coast in 600 BC. Centuries later, when the Romans conquered Greece in 146 ...

ROME, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved skeleton at a burial site in Pompeii which has shed new light on funeral rites and cultural activity in the doomed, ancient ...