Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

Vesuvius shaped life in the Bay of Naples for millennia. Its history and civil protection plans show how communities balance ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., roughly 2,000 people were trapped in the ancient city of Pompeii. The victims who died in the disaster have inspired artworks, movies and TV shows, and today, ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the ...

Ancient frescoes in Pompeii - paintings done on fresh plaster so that they set to the wall - were shattered and buried in ...

Italy's Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds ...