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

Back in the year 79 CE, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted, ejecting tonnes of volcanic debris into the skies above the country’s southern, Campania region. The nearby city of Pompeii – a modern city for ...

Credit: Parco archeologico di Pompei/Cover Images A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” ...

United States Centennial Commission. International Exhibition. 1876 Official Catalogue. Part II. Art Gallery, Annexes, and Out-Door Works of Art. Department IV.--Art. Sixth and Revised Edition.

Join the final chapter of Pompeii’s largest excavation in a generation. "House of Treasures" follows the latest revelations as the biggest archaeological dig in Pompeii for a generation reaches its ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...

Llorenç Alapont, an archaeologist at the University of Valencia, led the recent research on plaster casts of Pompeii victims. University of Valencia When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it famously ...