The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

A chance geologic phenomenon and a local legend 350,000 years later sent scientists on a journey to walk in the footsteps of ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...