A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

"In 100 years' time, today will be remembered as historic because the discovery we are presenting is historic." Archaeologists excavating at the doomed Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by ...

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 ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

Archaeologists uncover new truths about Pompeii, a wealthy Roman playground ... archaeologists unearth ancient artifacts... REBECCA BENEFIEL: This main entrance is heavily fortified.

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a large fresco depicting Dionysiac rituals in an ancient banquet hall. The frieze, dating back to 40s-30s BC, shows a Dionysian procession with bacchantes ...

As each wheelbarrow of debris was removed, revealing columns, artifacts, mosaics ... as the “Villa Item” after Aurelio Item, owner of Pompeii’s Hotel Suisse, and the private excavator ...

Last fall, some of Pompeii’s most dramatic artifacts arrived in Alabama for a blockbuster exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art. The frescoes, jewelry, and other treasures that made the trip from ...

Our final Pompeii tour stop was the Antiquarium di Pompei. This museum holds many archeological artifacts and artwork that need to be preserved indoors. By this point, we were exhausted from ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city ... human remains, and artifacts from ancient homes and businesses – are revealing a city of both staggering ...