Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. Experts say the newly discovered ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii did not end with the volcanic eruption of 79 AD. New data and traces uncovered during the restoration work on the Insula Meridionalis – the southern district ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered an even ...

Another room in the House of the Lararium was evidently a storage closet; inside a bound set of wooden planks were found. The planks are of various species, according to a release from the Pompeii ...

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city's water supply system based on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The new movie "Pompeii" reconstructs one of ...

Victims who perished in Pompeii after the devastating 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have been killed by a simultaneous earthquake, according to new research published on Thursday. The Barron's ...

The collapsed false ceiling of an adjacent building was also discovered. Photo: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii A room of an adjacent building had its false ceiling come in due to the ...