Over decades, a special police unit in Italy recovered hundreds of artifacts from the black market. Recently displayed at the ...

One moment, Pompeii was alive with trade and laughter. The next, it was frozen in ash - a Roman city caught in the grip of nature’s fury.

A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

This is one reason why archeological sites like the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are so important: they preserve the living spaces, shops, tools, and graffiti of the common people that would ...

Investigators making the shocking find saw that the remains had dark substances inside the cavity that resembled obsidian.

Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow through settlements such as Herculaneum, Oplontis, Pompeii and others.

Last month, a team of researchers confirmed that the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in 79, which devastated and buried the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, also turned one victim’s ...

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...