Pompeii was a typical Roman city in southern Italy with all those typical features from forums and temples, to public baths and brothels. But with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in 79 AD, life in ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered intricate artwork inside a small Pompeii house that was buried in ash and debris from ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the large fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, a new one has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in Italy. An almost life-size frieze ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans, a study said. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii The ruins of Pompeii ...

The museum is home to Pompeii’s finest art and artifacts, including a display (in the “Secret Room”) of erotic frescoes that were considered so bawdy that by the time they made it here, in ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once ...