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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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered 79 previously unseen pieces of graffiti scratched into the walls of an alley in Pompeii that ...

A new analysis of wool clothing on human remains from Pompeii is reviving the debate over what the weather was like when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. The findings hint that the city may not have ...

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in 79AD, visitors to the Roman town can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scans revealed a villa within a defensive enclosure and an aisled building, possibly used as a barn or meeting hall [TerraDat ...

The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological evidence tells us. The ancient city of Herculanum was destroyed by the ...

Noah Wyle and his “The Pitt” co-stars all went through a tough “boot camp” before production. “This is a fairly young ensemble, and certainly none of us have ever been doctors before, and we all had ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was the gravest natural disaster to strike Italy during the peak of the Roman Empire, killing more than a thousand people in nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny ...

Archaeologists excavating a villa destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. have unearthed magnificent frescoes which illuminate life and culture in the ancient society. Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...