Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered one of Pompeii’s largest and most elaborate private bathhouses. Complete with mosaic floors, ...

By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people. After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD eruption, bodies of the ...

More recently, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupted in 1985, killing around 25,000 people. Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis ...

The story is, perhaps, a bit simpler in Pompeii - or maybe we just know it better. After all, people were there to watch it happen and write about it. The pyroclastic flow hit the town in ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

and a changing room could hold up to thirty people, judging from the benches, the park noted. (Credit: Courtesy of the MIC - Archaeological Park of Pompeii) Zuchtriegel said wealthy habitants of ...

Researchers now think they understand what happened during those 32 hours of hell. The ground-breaking new study suggests there was a five-hour window when residents could have escaped - but were ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

The Pompeii spa, which could accommodate 30 people, features a hot room, a warm room and cold room for cooling off, as well as a changing room with benches, according to the release. The cold room ...