The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

Prison Bakery Excavated at Pompeii Stuns Researcher With Its Brutal History People are familiar with the disaster of Pompeii ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have made a “once-in-a-century” discovery in Pompeii after unearthing a stunning ancient luxury spa with thermal baths and mosaic designs.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“I’ve come down to watch visitors during the eruption many times,” says Dr Lily Withycombe, the lead coordinating curator for the exhibition, who has also worked as an archaeologist in Pompeii.