Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 transformed one unfortunate victim’s brain into organic glass.

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

Two rare and almost life-seized statues have been discover during the digging of a massive tomb in Pompeii, Italy.According ...