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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...