Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed ...

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...

Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

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

Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.

The Roman city of Pompeii was the site of one of Antiquity’s biggest tragedies. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in it in AD79. When the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupted, Pompeii (and most of its ...

A new study suggests Pompeii may have faced an ancient Greek "machine gun" from the island of Rhodes during Sulla’s Roman ...

Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. A study has uncovered compelling evidence that Roman forces ...

(CNN) — The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever ...

Heritage is at the heart of a wine making project in Pompeii that is aiming to re-establish the southern Italian volcanic ...

Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...