Allison Emmerson, an archaeologist at Tulane University, is making a digital twin of parts of Pompeii, a famously fragile site where she’s spent the past 16 years digging through layers of soil ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive ...

Learn fundamentals of neoclassical architecture, including the history behind this 18th-century style and famous ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

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

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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Ronald James Roth, 89, of Herculaneum died April 4, 2025, in Festus. Mr. Roth was a 1953 graduate of Festus High School. He retired as a salesman from Sears Roebuck in St. Louis. He was a long-time ...

Since its discovery in the late 16th century, excavations of Pompeii's ruins have continued to shed light on the city's incredible life before it was buried by volcanic ash in 79 AD. A new ...