Around 20,000 people lived in Pompeii on the eve of the Mount Vesuvius eruption. Only a handful continued trying to live there afterwards. The Emperor Titus attempted but failed to revive Pompeii and ...

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last ...

A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military leader Pliny the Elder, new research finds. The jawbone associated with that ...

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 ...

New evidence from Pompeii suggests Mount Vesuvius erupted in autumn, not summer. Victims wore thick wool clothing, better ...

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins. Despite the massive destruction suffered by ...

A mechanical artwork designed in 1775 to depict the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius has been brought to life for the first time — 250 years after it was conceived — thanks to modern technology and ...

Catalogue of the Paintings, Portraits, Marble and Plaster Statuary, Engravings & Water Color Drawings, in the Collection of the Boston Museum, Tremont, near Court Street, Boston, together with a ...

The May 1984 National Geographic showed through color photos and drawings the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The explosion of ...