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

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

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

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

Researchers have found nearly 100 doodles of everyday people hidden in the walls of Pompeii before the volcano destroyed ...

A love note, a gladiatorial combat scene, a barrage of insults and everyday confessions have emerged on a wall in Pompeii. New imaging technology has revealed nearly 80 previously unseen inscriptions.

Limescale deposits in the buried city's wells, pipes, and bathing facilities show hygienic conditions were poor, say scientists. Pompeii was Pompeii was covered in several feet of volcanic ash, pumice ...

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 ...

NAPLES, ITALY—ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have uncovered several frescoes in the Villa Poppaea. The luxurious ...

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — Actor Jackie Chan carried the Olympic torch through the ruins of Pompeii during the relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Monday. The day’s route also passed along the ...