The eruption of Mt Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and one ancient library was burned to a crisp.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance to humanity. These sites, ranging from ...

Archaeologists have discovered 79 previously unseen pieces of graffiti scratched into the walls of an alley in Pompeii that ...

STUNNED archaeologists have uncovered a secret Roman villa that’s been dubbed “Port Talbot’s Pompeii”. The remarkable find is ...

A green ring of 4 km, surrounding the walls of ancient Pompeii, is planned as a buffer park where necropolises and extra urban Roman villas coexist with agriculture and forests. The park will ...

Archaeologists have discovered the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales - and it's earned the nickname 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'.

Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might have been an unpleasant experience ...

When most people envision the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they think of the casts of their bodies made by pouring plaster ...

Extraordinary new research from the University of Valencia has revealed a haunting detail about the final moments of those who perished in the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly two ...

Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii in 79 A.D. Credit: The Dronaut / CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers from the ÁTROPOS group at the University of Valencia say new analysis of ...

A villa in Pompeii has survived two thousand years and is still well preserved. Image via Wiki Commons. Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to ...

Vesuvius has shaped southern Italy for thousands of years, alternately nurturing and threatening the communities that settled on its slopes. Its fertile soils have supported agriculture since ...