Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...

Archaeologists uncover a lavish private bathhouse in Pompeii, revealing the city's opulence and the tragic final moments of ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

It’s a place to have a spa day fit for an emperor. The largest private Roman bathhouse ever found in the ruined ancient city of Pompeii has been discovered recently by archaeologists under a pile of ...

Archeological Park of Pompeii Press Office Via AP, HO Recently, archeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry shop, two villas and the bones of three people who died during the ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 20 feet of ash, preserving amazing details about daily life in the Roman Empire. Pompeii is one of the most ...

The well-preserved thermal bath complex was unearthed at a lavish home likely owned by a member of the ancient city's elite ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the most significant ...

From around 2pm, larger chunks of pumice - a porous volcanic rock - began to rain down. This is when Pompeii and its people started to be crushed, as slabs up to nine feet thick crashed onto the ...

two villas and the bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The bodies belonged to a ...