POMPEII, ITALY—Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le Guennec of Quebec University examined the walls of a corridor connecting ...

A 2,000-year-old love note and an illustrated gladiator fight scene were among the ancient inscriptions recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii, the archaeological park announced this week. Thought of ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii in layers of volcanic debris, it preserved the bodies of many individuals who had perished. Since ...

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in 79AD, visitors to the Roman town can ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, ...

Authorities confirmed Thursday that Erica Fox, 55, a swimmer who was found dead last month after a swim in Monterey County, was killed by a shark. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner identified Fox ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was the gravest natural disaster to strike Italy during the peak of the Roman Empire, killing more than a thousand people in nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny ...

A body found near Davenport in Santa Cruz County may be the woman who went missing while swimming a week ago. Just after noon on Dec. 21, multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Erica Fox, 55, disappear ...

The volcanic eruption that struck the Roman resort city of Pompeii may be the most famous natural disaster in human history. But one critical detail about the catastrophe continues vexing experts: the ...

Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen features, such as large-scale arches and dome roofs. And many of these structures still stand ...

Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...