Two life-size funerary figures have been found in Pompeii that reveal the power, status, and public role of a Roman woman.

View post: After Mark Ruffalo's Hulk 'Avengers' Update, Chris Pratt Drops a Subtle Hint to Marvel Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized ...

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of ...

ROME — Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii in layers of volcanic debris, it preserved the bodies of many individuals who had perished. Since ...