Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

Artifacts from the frozen city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., are on display ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

New DNA analysis challenges existing hypotheses about the identities and relationships of victims found in Pompeii after the ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park near Naples will set a limit on the amount of people who are visiting the ancient location after ...

The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who ...

The preserved Roman city of Pompeii will have new visitor limits to combat overtourism and protect the archeological park.