Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual impairments or other disabilities.

Michela Marcato, 54, has been blind since birth. She and her partially sighted partner were touring the site amid a new ...

Hidden beside Pompeii lies the Villa of Poppaea, a vast seaside palace believed to belong to Nero’s second wife, frozen in time by the eruption of Vesuvius. With over a hundred rooms, towering ...

Scientists have shed new light on the dirty habits of ancient Rome in Pompeii. By taking a look at limescale in the destroyed ...

Scientists, using 3D images and computing technologies, were able to detect graffiti that had previously been hidden. These inscriptions depict gladiatorial fights and love messages. They open up new ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a livestreamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoes and ...

"To the folks of Down East Carteret County, and some locals throughout coastal NC, however, the 'jumpin’ mullet,' as they call it, owns a special place in their hearts and kitchens," Dr. David Burney ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown that ...

Frescoes, Villa Arianna(Adobe Stock, Alamy Stock Photo) Lead water tank and pipes, Villa Arianna, Stabiae, Italy(Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei) As they strolled through a colonnaded ...

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

Dozens of grape vines have been planted amidst the ruins of Pompeii in a project to produce thousands of bottles of wine from ...