For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains a well-preserved archaeological site, attracting tourists from ...

We never expect to find one embalmed body. So of course we were shocked. He's the best preserved individual in Pompeii. - [Narrator] In Ancient Roman funerary customs, cremation was the norm.

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting ...

A couple found in Pompeii desperately clung to their gold ... are providing clues to scientists as to who they were. The bodies were found inside a small, makeshift bedroom in a villa that was ...

The Digest A "once-in-a-century" discovery of a sumptuous Roman bathhouse in Pompeii has just been unearthed ... excavation over two years, were two bodies. A woman aged between 35 and 50 lying ...