The Roman city of Pompeii was the site of one of Antiquity’s biggest tragedies. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in it in AD79. When the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupted, Pompeii (and most of its ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

The destruction of the city of Pompeii is one of the most famous natural disasters of the ancient world. Nearly everyone alive today has heard of this famous site, thanks to the countless movies, ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...

Life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii did not end with the volcanic eruption of 79 AD. New data and traces uncovered during the restoration work on the Insula Meridionalis – the southern district ...

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The archaeological park of Pompeii (over 4 million visitors in 2025), a vineyard-garden, and Mount Vesuvius in the background ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...