The excavations taking place in the Roman city, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, reflect the beauty and sophistication of ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

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

Pompeii is implementing limitations to prevent damage caused by overtourism after a record-breaking summer for visitor ...

"Pompeii: The Exhibition" opens Nov. 15 at Graceland, featuring a collection artifacts from the ancient Roman city that was ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

Since excavations of the ruins of Pompeii began in the 1700s, more than 100 plaster casts of the victims’ bodies have been ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

During the 1914 Pompeii excavations, nine individuals were discovered in a home's garden, two of whom were found in an embrace. At the time, archaeologists said there were three possibilities for ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...