This is what Zuchtriegel believes to be Pompeii’s superpower: “the opportunity to take a peek behind the official version of history” that is all too often written by the rich and powerful, to glimpse ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

But, as she points out, there’s “an endless amount, truly an endless amount.” Thanks to countless books and movies, most people know the basics about Pompeii: it was an ancient Roman city ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii. New research has uncovered several surprises about the last desperate moments of the citizens of the ancient city of Pompeii.

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii The discovery opens up different interpretations for who these people might have been.

When archaeologists in Pompeii discovered an almost 2,000-year-old fresco of what’s being referred to as a “proto-pizza” in June, people nearly lost their minds. While the flat piece of ...

People who were enslaved were very much a part of every aspect of life in a city like Pompeii, and people who had formerly been enslaved also could rise very high in society.” ...

This image provided by the Archeological Park of Pompeii shows a group of casts, numbers 50, 51 and 52, made in 1974 from the Casa del Bracciale d'Oro in Pompeii. (Courtesy of MIC, Archaeological ...

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii. New research has uncovered several surprises about the last desperate moments of the citizens of the ancient city of Pompeii.

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii The discovery opens up different interpretations for who these people might have been.