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

Since the first-ever excavation of Pompeii in 1748, so much more has been discovered about the ancient city that was at the ...

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 remained buried until its rediscovery in the 18th century. The most astounding discovery of the excavations that ...

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

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

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

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

Anan early Cretaceous formation in northeast China, it holds some of the best preserved fossils on Earth and is a treasure ...

Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents, preserving scenes of the victims of the city’s destruction like an eerie time capsule. Excavations first began to ...