Hygiene was far from ideal in the Roman city, which was not connected to a river and relied on wells more than 30 meters deep ...

Pompeii may have been unseasonably cold when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city in A.D. 79, new research proposes. A new analysis of 14 of the iconic plaster casts made of the ...

This Wednesday, the World Erotic Art Museum will present proof that time travel is possible. It will take us back to sixth-century B.C. Pompeii, a city that prospered before tragically meeting its ...

Survivors of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 returned to the ash-covered Roman city in the centuries after the blast and lived on the upper floors of buildings, new excavations ...

Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet, Garden Scene, 1st century BC - 1st century AD. Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, Ufficio Scavi, Pompei, Photography ⓒ Luciano ...

The excavated site of Pompeii gives a revealing look at a great Roman city. The rich port of Pompeii was buried with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The excavated site gives a revealing look ...

In the ancient city of Pompeii, a newly excavated tomb revealed statues of a married couple. Tristan de Boer via Unsplash The architecture, artwork and history of Pompeii have been studied and ...

Archaeology is storytelling, and Pompeii—despite being buried under 19 feet of volcanic ash in A.D. 79—has become more and more of an open book. “Pompeii: The New Dig: House of Treasures” is an ...

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 ...