When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., covering the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in layers of ash, it created one of histories great time capsules. The eruption preserved entire stretches of the ...

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii and other towns. For centuries, the city lay preserved under ash. Starting in the 1700s, archaeologists began unearthing the ...

EVER wondered how the rich lived in ancient times? Thanks to modern technology, now we can take a peek inside. Combining modern technology with archaeology, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University ...

Archaeologists have digitally reconstructed a house in Pompeii to show what life must have been like for a rich Roman banker 2,000 years ago. The Italian city was famously buried in volcanic ash —and ...

Sit back, relax and take a stunning flight of fancy over a never-before-seen part of one of the world’s most extraordinary ancient sites. Amazing drone footage has been released of new excavations of ...

After the catastrophic earthquake in Italy in 1980, the Pompeii city curator invited the international research community to help document the ruin city, before the state of the finds from the volcano ...