While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Some 1,150 bodies have been discovered at Pompeii so far, which seems to confirm this theory. Many skeletons were found with jewellery, coins, and silverware.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

The bodies were presented in their wrapped state ... The museum's current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

“Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young ... Archaeo Travelers/Archaeological Park of Pompeii The female statue has a symbol carved into its midsection which archaeologists posit ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...