Italian police have smashed a gang of ‘tomb raiders’ suspected to have stolen hundreds of ancient artefacts from sites across ...

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 ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

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 ...

“Although Pompeii was of course smaller, and was more a resort for Romans than a major city, it’s exactly the same in the sense of being a place where people have the best of culture, of ...

Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption, which devastated the Roman city in 79CE, have revealed a detailed timeline of how the horror unfolded across 32 hours. The cataclysmic ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.