Pompeii didn't begin with the Romans. It was fundamentally an Oscan city, also influenced by the Etruscans and Greeks.

A detail of a fresco showing a sea battle framed in Pompeii red topped by a basket and a mask that decorates the living room of house of the Vetti, in one of the wealthiest homes in Pompeii, the House ...

A significant portion of every generation believes that an apocalypse is just around the corner. In 99% of the cases, the doomsayers are wrong. But in 79 A.D., in the Roman city of Pompeii at the foot ...

As I saw the images—the first time in 2,000 years that anyone had laid eyes on them—I felt a great surge of emotion, especially because they remain only yours for a few moments before they are ...

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

Right now, in the center of Manhattan, anyone can enter a veritable portal to the ancient world. Thirty-five frescoes transported from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples have arrived at New ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Wael Shawky is the first contemporary artist to create and debut a work on-site as part of the new initiative. Gallerist Lia Rumma, curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, collector Nicoletta Fiorucci, ...

POMPEII, ItalyPOMPEII, Italy — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The magnificent art deco interior of the Cincinnati Museum Center, the former Union Terminal train station, makes the building ...