New excavations in Pompeii have revealed the skeletons of three victims of the 79 AD volcanic eruption. The Pompeiians had taken refuge in a house but were killed under a collapsed attic, ...

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins, the directors of the famous site said ...

Pompeii wasn't just buried in ash and forgotten for centuries until the 16th century. Archaeologists say new findings support the idea that people resettled among the ruins of the Roman city after ...

Pompeii archaeologists have made a striking new discovery amid the ruins from the 79 AD tragedy. The skeletal remains of two men found this week marked the first discovery of human remains there since ...

Italy's Mount Vesuvius famously erupted in AD 79, killing thousands of people and leaving the nearby city of Pompeii in ruins. According to popular narrative, in the following 1,500 years until its ...

Using advanced imaging technology, experts have captured hundreds of pieces of graffiti, dozens of which were previously ...

POMPEII, Italy — A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under meters of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption ...

ROME, May 16 (Reuters) - Two skeletons have been found in the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city wiped out by an eruption of volcano Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, the Italian Culture ...

POMPEII, Italy — In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the ...

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under meters of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...