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

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

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

A room decorated with peacocks reappears in a Roman villa near Pompeii after centuries hidden by volcanic ash.

If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands apart as a place that can put you right inside the heart of the ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2,000-year-old love note and an illustrated gladiator fight scene were among the ancient inscriptions recently uncovered on a ...

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people ...

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 ...

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

When considering ancient Greek innovations, we often think of philosophy, mathematics, and architecture—not bakeries or ovens, right?

A trip to Pompeii’s public baths meant taking a dip in water contaminated with sweat and urine – until the Romans took over and sanitation improved. It’s easy to think of ancient Pompeii as a typical ...