Ash raining down from the volcano blanketed Pompeii and surrounding cities, preserving frescoes, buildings and citizens where ...

Over time, Pompeii was forgotten, and it wasn’t until centuries later that excavations unearthed evidence ... that originated about 6,000 years ago. Before wedge-shaped cuneiform characters ...

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Patrick McMullan via Getty Images ... story of Pompeii in a nutshell.” The quip set the stage for one of the night’s most remarkable lots—a behind-the-scenes visit to an excavation site ...

allowing researchers to see this data in ways that simply were not possible before. One of the world's best known archaeological sites, Pompeii attracts 2.5 million visitors per year, and study of the ...

THE new adrenaline-fuelled blockbuster movie Gladiator II shows the Colosseum as a brutal bloodbath where Roman fighters were ...

A perfect tour to save time and visit both the historic centre of Naples, the archaeological excavations of Pompeii ... the most beautiful and panoramic photos of your holiday in Naples. To continue, ...

With Gladiator II now in theaters, archaeological discoveries reveal how Hollywood’s warriors compare to history.

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...