Late in the year 79 CE, the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum would have found this question extremely pressing. When the ...

The newly reopened Antiquarium museum displays an array of archaeological artifacts Livia Gershon | Daily Correspondent Trove of amulets unearthed in Pompeii Courtesy of Italy's Ministry of Cultural ...

Pompeii was a thriving Roman city until the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried it beneath ash, rock, and ...

The destruction of Pompeii is one of antiquity’s most famous disasters, but its exact date remains fiercely debated. From ...

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Archaeologists explain the ongoing excavations at Pompeii and new findings about Vesuvius’ eruption date, slavery and daily life for ancient Romans. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii When ...

The journey from Naples to the ruins of Pompeii takes about half an hour on the Circumvesuviana, a train that rattles through a ribbon of land between the base of Mt. Vesuvius, on one side, and the ...

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A significant portion of every generation believes that an apocalypse is just around the corner. In 99% of the cases, the doomsayers are wrong. But in 79 A.D., in the Roman city of Pompeii at the foot ...